Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 1st Edition by Jon Lawrence, Pat Starkey 0853236763 9780853236764

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ISBN 10: 0853236763 

ISBN 13: 9780853236764

Author: Jon Lawrence, Pat Starkey

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.

Table of contents:

Part I: Gender and ‘Delinquency’

1.Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945

2.’Just Trying to be Men’? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds

Part II: Child Emigration
3. Fairbridge Child Migrants
4. Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930–1960
5. Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea
6. Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945

Part III: Rethinking Philanthropy
7. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children
8. The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland
9. ‘Blood is Thicker than Water’: Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children

Part IV: ‘Welfare States’ and Child Welfare
10. Fixing Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925–1945
11. A Spirit of ‘Friendly Rivalry’? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain
12. Mental Incapacity, Ill-health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain

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