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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

The American Historical Review · 1986 · Vol. 91(5) · pp. 1261–1261

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Preface (1994)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction31From Mobs to Memorials: The Sacralization of Child Life222From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict Over Child Labor563From Child Labor to Child Work: Redefining the Economic World of Children734From a Proper Burial to a Proper Education: The Case of Children's Insurance1135From Wrongful Death to Wrongful Birth: The Changing Legal Evaluation of Children1386From Baby Farms to Black-Market Babies: The Changing Market for Children1697From Useful to Useless and Back to Useful? Emerging Patterns in the Valuation of Children208Notes229Index267

Gender, Labor, and Family DynamicsFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsValuation (finance)Value (mathematics)Wrongful deathWork (physics)EconomicsBlack marketSociologyPsychologyPolitical scienceLaw
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