Discovering child poverty: the creation of a policy agenda from 1800 to the present

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 be...

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1. Verfasser: Platt, Lucinda ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol, UK Policy Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:Studies in poverty, inequality, and social exclusion
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Zusammenfassung: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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Introduction : scope and argument of the book -- The conditions for child poverty : context and chronology -- A fit occupation for children? : children and work -- Workers of the future : the education of children -- Discovering child poverty : child poverty and the family to 1945 -- Rediscovering child poverty : child poverty and policy from 1945 -- Conclusion : child poverty on the agenda
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 143 Seiten)
ISBN:9781847421227
DOI:10.46692/9781847421227