Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Child Welfare and Social Action from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Author: Jon Lawrence

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2001-10-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1781386323

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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.

Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: Jon Lawrence

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780853236863

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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.

Imagined Orphans
Imagined Orphans

Author: Lydia Murdoch

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0813537223

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"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.

A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940
A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940

Author: Kirsten Madden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 1134557027

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Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic collection has failed to appear, until now. This innovative book brings together the most comprehensive collection to date of references to women’s economic writing from the 1770s to 1940. It includes thousands of contributions from more than 1,700 women from the UK, the US and many other countries. This bibliography is an important reference work for systematic inquiry into questions of gender and the history of economic thought. This volume is a valuable resource and will interest researchers on women's contributions to economic thought, the sociology of economics, and the lives of female social scientists and activist-authors. With a comprehensive editorial introduction, it fills a long-standing gap and will be greeted warmly by scholars of the history of economic thought and those involved in feminist economics.