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Child welfare : historical dimensions, contemporary debates

Book information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9781847425645, 184742564X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2350514 bytes)
Pages
305\305
Time added
2013-04-15 18:00:00

Description

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. 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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