Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives / Edition 1

by Jon Lawrence, Pat Starkey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853236764
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)

About the Author

Pat Starkey is Honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool.

Jon Lawrence is Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

The 12 papers were selected from the more than 50 presented at an international conference in Liverpool in July 1998 to mark the deposit of the records of the NCH Action for Children in the university library there. Historians cover how the notion of delinquency has been and is gendered, child emigration, the role of philanthropy in child welfare between the late 19th century and World War II, and state intervention in family life and child welfare. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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