Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries international perspectives / edited by Jon Lawrence and Pat Starkey.
| Other author | Lawrence, Jon. |
| Other author | Starkey, Pat. |
| Other author | EBSCO Publishing (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, |
| Description | vi, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
| General note | Based on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002392341 |
| ISBN | 0853236763 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0853236860 (pbk.) |
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