Discovering Child Poverty : The Creation of a Policy Agenda from 1800 to the Present
Lucinda. Platt
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Bristol : : The Policy Press, , 2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (155 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; DISCOVERING CHILDPOVERTY: The creation of a policy agenda from 1800 to the present; DedicationIn memory of Norman Platt, 1920-2004; Contents; Acknowledgements; ONE - Introduction: scope and argument of the book; TWO - The conditions for child poverty: context and chronology; THREE - A fit occupation for children? Children and work; FOUR - Workers of the future: the education of children; FIVE - Discovering child poverty: child poverty and the family to 1945; SIX - Rediscovering child poverty: child poverty and policy from 1945; SEVEN - Conclusion: child poverty on the agenda. - ReferencesIndex; Other titles in the Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series. - This book charts key British developments in child welfare, child poverty research and state support for children from 1800 to the present day. With direct quotations from key sources, it argues that even in the face of clear evidence of hardship the response of policy makers to child poverty has been ambivalent.
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| Emner | Child welfare - History - Great Britain
Poor children - Government policy History - Great Britain Poor children - History - Great Britain Social Sciences Vis mer... Social Welfare & Social Work - General
Social Welfare & Social Work fattigdom sosialhjelp sosialpolitikk barn Storbritannia |
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| ISBN | 1861345836. - 9781861345837
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