Learning to forget : schooling and family life in New Haven's working class, 1870-1940 /
This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, Connecticut. Through the lenses of history, sociology, and education, Learning to Forget presents a highly readable account of cross-generational experi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Immigrants and Immigrant Neighborhoods: Economic and Residential Change in New Haven, 1830-1930
- 2 Learning and Earning: Schooling, Juvenile Employment, and the Early Life Course in Late-Nineteenth-Century New Haven
- 3 The Painful Contrast: Italian Immigrant Children at Home and at School
- 4 Hands to Mouths: The Changing Economy of Giving and Taking in Italian Immigrant F amilies
- 5 From Courtship to Dating: The Marriage Market, Schooling, and the Family Economy
- 6 The Landscape of Ambition: Geography, Ethnicity, and Class in Children�s School Experiences7 “Too Good for That�: Effort and Opportunity in the “New� High School
- Conclusion: Elm City�s Youth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index