Shipyard Day Care Centers of World War II
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Description: Research project into the Kaiser Company's provision of shipyard child care centers for working mothers during the Second World War.
Chapter 1: Shipyard Day Care Centers of World War II:The Kaiser Experiment During World War II, the Kaiser Company built shipyard child care centers for working mothers. This important but neglected landmark social experiment in American history affected the lives of working mothers and their children, particularly the shipyard workers in Richmond, California and Portland, Oregon.To maintain a profit and meet war production deadlines, the Kaiser effort, funded through the United States Maritime Commission, established 24 hour children centers. Kaiser's two shipyard children centers in Portland, the nation's largest, served nearly 4000 children. However, in both the Richmond and Portland Kaiser centers African American parents felt uncomfortable leaving their children in the care of white teachers. According to historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, "Many black women recalled that company child care services were 'available to the whites' only." Although the Kaiser Child Services Centers were atypical models they, nonetheless, are an exemplary demonstration of quality child care, unmatched to this day. At the close of the war, these Kaiser centers, along with 3100 other federal and state funded centers serving from 600,000 to 1.6 million children, were dismantled. California is the only state where publicly funded centers continued after the war.
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