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The Hard-knock Life: Negotiating Child Care for “Orphans” in Turn-of-the-Century America - Jessie B. Ramey Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xii + 271 pp. $55 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03690-3; $28 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07963-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2014

Crista DeLuzio*
Affiliation:
Southern Methodist University

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2014 

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References

1 Childcare in Black and White is the winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association, the Lerner-Scott Prize in Women's History from the Organization of American Historians, and the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance.

2 See Sandburg, Sheryl, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (New York 2013)Google Scholar; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can't Have it All,” Atlantic, July–August 2012, archived at www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/.