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Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943

Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943

Blum, Ann S.

Paperback

Series: Engendering Latin America

General ParentingMexican History

ISBN10: 080321359X
ISBN13: 9780803213593
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jan 1 2010
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
When Porfirio Díaz extended his modernization initiative in Mexico to the administration of public welfare, the families and especially the children of the urban poor became a government concern. Reforming the poor through work and by bolstering Mexico's emerging middle class were central to the government's goals of order and progress. But Porfirian policies linking families and work often endangered the children they were supposed to protect, especially when state welfare institutions became involved in the shadowy traffic of child labor. The Mexican Revolution, which followed, generated an unprecedented surge of social reform that was focused on families and accelerated the integration of child protection into public policy, political discourse, and private life. In ways that transcended the abrupt discontinuities and conflicts of the era, Porfirian officials, revolutionary leaders, and social reformers alike invoked idealized models of the Mexican family as the primary building block of society, making families, especially those of Mexico's working classes, the object of moralizing reform in the name of state construction and national progress. Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943 analyzes family practices and class formation in modern Mexico by examining the ways in which family-oriented public policies and institutions affected cross-class interactions as well as relations between parents and children.

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