Moral minefields: Save the Children Fund and the moral economies of nursery schooling in the South Wales coalfield in the 1930s

We trace the meeting and misalignment of competing moral economies in South Wales during the depression of the 1930s. Our case study is the Save the Children Fund's campaign to open emergency open-air nurseries in distressed communities and we analyse the contested meanings of work, voluntarism...

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Main Author: Gill, Rebecca (Author)
Contributors: Leeworthy, Daryl
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2015]
In: Journal of global ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 218-232
Further subjects:B Nancy Astor
B Save the Children Fund
B Elizabeth Andrews
B South Wales
B nurseries
B Moral economy
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Summary:We trace the meeting and misalignment of competing moral economies in South Wales during the depression of the 1930s. Our case study is the Save the Children Fund's campaign to open emergency open-air nurseries in distressed communities and we analyse the contested meanings of work, voluntarism and cooperation that arose between charitable enterprises and local political organisers in the area. We also inquire into the attempt of a new generation of female political activists to shape a socialist moral economy of the family in South Wales in a period of widening democracy and the growth of class politics and, in doing so, consider the place of gender in defining these social and political values.
ISSN:1744-9634
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of global ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2015.1054561