Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Subtitle: international perspectives
By: edited by Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey.
Contributors: Lawrence, Jon.; Starkey, Pat.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Child welfare -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.; Child welfare -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Immigrant children -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Female juvenile delinquents -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Recent historical work has done much to focus attention on changing conceptions of children's rights during the 19th and 20th centuries. These essays address a variety of themes including the abuse of children, and the role of the welfare state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Gender and 'Delinquency'; title: 1 Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light; title: District of Montreal before 1945; title: Tamara Myers; title: 2 'Just Trying to be Men'? Violence, Girls and their; title: Social Worlds; title: J. A. Brown, M. Burman and K. Tisdall; title: II Child Emigration; title: 3 Fairbridge Child Migrants; title: Geoffrey Sherington; title: 4 Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge; title: Society and British Child Migration to Canada,; title: 1930-1960; title: Patrick A. Dunae; title: 5 Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea; title: Shurlee Swain; title: 6 Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945; title: Kathleen Paul; title: III Rethinking Philanthropy; title: 7 From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating; title: Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children; title: Lydia D. Murdoch; title: 8 The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland; title: John Stewart; title: 9 'Blood is Thicker than Water': Family, Fantasy and; title: Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children; title: Lynn Abrams; title: IV 'Welfare States' and Child Welfare; title: 10 'Fixing' Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory; title: Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925-1945; title: Molly Ladd-Taylor; title: 11 A Spirit of 'Friendly Rivalry'? Voluntary Societies and; title: the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation; title: in Britain; title: Julie Grier; title: 12 Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family; title: Failure in Post-War Britain; title: Pat Starkey.