Child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : international perspectives / edited by Jon Lawrence and 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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Based on a conference on Child Welfare and Social Action held at the University of Liverpool, 1998. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |