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This article explores the economic dimensions of Janusz Korczak’s pedagogy interpreted through the cultural history of interwar childhood. Using the perspective of new childhood studies, the author discusses Korczak’s activities as a search for the ability to recover and value the ethos of object management – present in the grassroots practices of Polish and Jewish working-class families and their children. The author calls Korczak one of the first educators who insisted on approaching childhood from the perspective of objects, work, possessions, and property. His intention was to thoroughly revise the contemporary philosophical approach to the child-adult relationship, highlighting not only the familial ties or difference of experience but also the economic abuse with the otherwise inconspicuous objects of everyday life as its actants. His point of view was unprecedented – not only did it enforce a revision of certain trends in pedagogy, but it also inspired a radical design of culture based on the then novel economic approach to life.