Children in English Society Volume II : From the Eighteenth Century to the Children Act 1948 / Ivy Pinchbeck, Margaret Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinchbeck, Ivy, Author.

Hewitt, Margaret, Author.

Series:

Studies in social history (Routledge & Kegan Paul)

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Great Britain--History.

Child welfare.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This second volume covers the period from the last years of the eighteenth century up to the first half of the twentieth, a time in which problems caused by urbanization, industrialization, the rapid increase in population, and failure to provide adequately for the welfare of children led to a new awakening of the national conscience.

Contents:

Cover; XII Childhood without Rights or Protection; XIII The Rights and Duties of Parents; XIV Children as Wage Earners in Early Industrialism; XV Early Experiments in Training and Reform; XVI Vagrancy and Delinquency in an Urban Setting; 1. The Reformatory Movement; 2. From Punishment to Prevention; XVII The Release of Children from Pauperism; XVIII Transportation and Emigration; XIX The Illegitimate Child; XX The Prevention of Cruelty and Neglect; XXI 'Children of the State'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8034-7

OCLC:

1129212955