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Images of Youth demonstrates the significance, long underestimated, of the male adolescent in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The male working-class youth was regarded as posing a serious problem--not only economically, but morally and socially as well. Investigating the causes of this, Hendrick examines the attitudes towards youth and its behavior, contemporary perceptions of "boy labour, " and the "disco...

This book offers a wide-ranging historical overview of child welfare in England. As well as providing an informed historical perspective on the evolution of child welfare during the last century, it also gives a provocative account of contemporary policies and the ideological thrust behind them. Children and child welfare sit at the heart of New Labour's plans for social inclusion. But how does the government view "children"? Is it reflecting ...

Child Welfare is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children.

This work is concerned with the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children.

Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.

Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.

This new reader provides an essential one stop introduction to the subject of child welfare in England and Wales. Innovative in its approach, it covers a variety of concepts, issues, policies and practices in the field of contemporary welfare. The book will be a valuable and definitive text for the growing number of childhood studies and social work courses as well as for a range of courses in related disciplines.

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is 'disappearing'. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with...