Child Welfare: England 1872-1989

by Harry d Hendrick

Overview

Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly the book studies the attitudes to policy-makers towards children. It reveals the way in which children have been viewed both as victims of and threats to the society in which they lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415007733
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/1993
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: BODIES AND MINDS, VICTIMS AND THREATS, AND INVESTMENTS, Part I The emergence of the child, c.1800-94, Part II From rescue and reform to 'children of the nation', c.t872-1918, Part III Minds and bodies: contradiction, tension and integration, 1918-45, Part IV Children of the Welfare State, 1945-89, Notes and references, Bibuography, Index

Editorial Reviews

'Here is a standard text, one unlikely to be bettered for a long time.' – Youth and Policy

'What Hendrick has done is to lay out some tantalising strands in the history of child welfare.' – History Workshop

'Of great interest to scholars in a range of disciplines and which seems certain to become a staple on the student reading lists for years to come.' – Times Higher Education Supplement

'Here is a standard text, one unlikely to be bettered for a long time.' – Youth and Policy

'What Hendrick has done is to lay out some tantalising strands in the history of child welfare.' – History Workshop

'Of great interest to scholars in a range of disciplines and which seems certain to become a staple on the student reading lists for years to come.' – Times Higher Education Supplement

'A detailed survey....He may be recommended as an outline survey.' – English Historical Review

'Both students and their teachers are very much in the debt of Harry Hendrick, who has provided a detailed survey of Child Welfare, England, 1872-1989' – Frank Dikotter, School of Oriental and African Studies

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