The Movement for Family Allowances, 1918-45
Author: John Macnicol
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 264
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Movement for Family Allowances in Great Britain, 1918-45
Author: John Macnicol
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Published: 1978
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Author: J. S. Macnicol
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Published: 1978
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Name of the Child
Author: Roger Cooter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1134933207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.
War and Progress
Author: Peter Dewey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1317900138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an account of how the daily lives of ordinary peoples were changed, profoundly and permanently, by these three momentous decades 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms Peter Dewey finds a much more positive pattern in the wealth of evidence he lays before us. His is a story of economic achievement, and the emergence of a new sense of social community in the nation, rather than a saga of disenchantment and decline.
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
Author: Hugh Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 131786803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, taking in Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries. For undergraduate courses in History of the Family, European Social History, History of Children and Gender History.
The Battle for Britain
Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1134979207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the current return to right-wing politics in Britain was prefigured by ideologies of change during and immediately after the war.
The Work Connection
Author: J. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-12-20
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0230510426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to current welfare developments in Britain. From discussion of the 'Speenhamland System', the struggle for Family Allowance and a National Minimum Wage, they show how first a Conservative government in the 1970s, and more recently 'New Labour', have used in-work benefits so that today they have become the preferred instrument of intervention in the labour market for setting wages. The authors discuss the ways in which these measures - the new deals for lone parents and young people and the working family tax credit - address issues of child poverty and the adequacy of incomes, and how far they are disciplining devices to encourage a new moral order, supportive of family life.
From Rights to Needs
Author: Raymond B. Blake
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0774858680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the family allowance phenomenon from the idea's debut in the House of Commons in 1929 to the program's demise as a universal program under the Mulroney government in 1992. Although successive federal governments remained committed to its underlying principle of universality, party politics, bureaucracy, federal-provincial wrangling, and the shifting priorities of citizens eroded the rights-based approach to social security and replaced it with one based on need. In tracing the evolution of one social security program within a national perspective, From Rights to Needs sheds new light on how Canada's welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.
Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919-1939
Author: Annmarie Hughes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748641866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers a unique contribution to gender and Scottish history breaking new ground on several fronts: there is no history of inter-war women in Scotland, very little labour or popular political history and virtually nothing published on women, the home and family. This book is a history of women in the period which integrates class and gender history as well as linking the public and private spheres. Using a gendered approach to history it transforms and shifts our knowledge of the Scottish past, unearthing the previously unexplored role which women played in inter-war socialist politics, the General Strike and popular political protest. It re-evaluates these areas and demonstrates the ways in which gender shaped the experience of class and class struggle. Importantly, the book also explores the links between the public and private spheres and addresses the concept of masculinity as well as femininity and pays particular reference to domestic violence. The strength of the book is the ways in which it illuminates the complex interconnections of culture and economic and social structure. Although the research is based on Scottish evidence, it also uses material to address key debates in gender history and labour history which have wider relevance and will appeal to gender historians, labour historians and social and cultural historians as well as social scientists.
