Child welfare : historical dimensions, contemporary debates /

This book offers a provocative account of contemporary policies on child welfare and the ideological thrust behind them and provides an informed historical perspective on the evolution of child welfare during the last century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hendrick, Harry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2003.
Edition:[Rev. ed.].
Subjects:
1800-1999
Child welfare > England > History > 19th century.
Child welfare > England > History > 20th century.
Social Welfare & Social Work > General.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Child welfare.
Jeugdhulpverlening.
Sociale politiek.
England.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • CHILD WELFARE; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Child welfare: ways of seeing; 2. Providing for the 'children of the nation', 1880s-1918; 3. Child welfare in a period of economic and political crises, 1918-45; 4. Optimism and liberalism: children of the welfare state, 1945-79; 5. The Conservative age: liberal moments amid poverty, ill-health and punishment, 1979-97; 6. New Labour and child welfare: panopticism in the service of communitarianism; References; Index.

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