Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International PerspectivesJon 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. |
Contents
Rethinking Philanthropy | 6 |
Just Trying to be Men? Violence Girls and their | 36 |
Fairbridge Child Migrants | 53 |
The Fairbridge | 82 |
The Emigration of an Idea | 101 |
Child Emigration since 1945 | 121 |
Creating | 147 |
The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland | 174 |
Family Fantasy | 195 |
Child Welfare and Compulsory | 219 |
A Spirit of Friendly Rivalry? Voluntary Societies | 234 |
Family | 256 |
Notes on Contributors | 277 |
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