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Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))

Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present von Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))

Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))


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Zusammenfassung

This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Zusammenfassung

Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))

This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.

Über Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))

Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey are in the School of History, University of Liverpool

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Child Welfare and Social Action - Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey
  • I. Gender and 'Delinquency'
  • 1. Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945 - Tamara Myers
  • 2. 'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds - J.A Brown, M. Burman and K. Tisdall
  • II Child Emigration
  • 3. Fairbridge Child Migrants - Geoffrey Sherington
  • 4. Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960 - Patrick A. Dunae
  • 5. Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea - Shurlee Swain
  • 6. Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945 - Kathleen Paul
  • III Rethinking Philanthropy
  • 7. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children - Lydia D. Murdoch
  • 8. The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland - John Stewart
  • 9. 'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children - Lynn Abrams
  • IV 'Welfare States' and Child Welfare
  • 10. Fixing Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945 - Molly Ladd-Taylor
  • 11. A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain - Julie Grier
  • 12. Mental Incapacity, Ill-health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain - Pat Starkey
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Jon Lawrence (Emmanuel College (United Kingdom))
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