ISBN:
0203221400
,
9780203221402
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 294 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Erosion of childhood
DDC:
305.230941
Keywords:
Children Social conditions
;
Great Britain
;
Child labor History
;
Great Britain
;
Education, Elementary History
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain
;
Children Social conditions
;
Child labor History
;
Education, Elementary History
;
Education, Elementary History
;
Child labor History
;
Children Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies
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Child labor
;
Children ; Social conditions
;
Education, Elementary
;
History
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Chapter 1 CHILDREN WITHOUT CHILDHOOD: AN INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 FACTORIES AND MINES LEGISLATION -- chapter 3 SWEATSHOPS, COTTAGE LABOUR AND MOONLIGHTING UP TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- chapter 4 CHILDREN ON THE LAND AND CHILDREN AT SEA -- chapter 5 YOUNG SLAVES--CHILDREN IN DOMESTIC SERVICE -- chapter 6 BRICKYARD AND CANAL BOAT CHILDREN AND CHIMNEY SWEEPS -- chapter 7 THEATRICAL, CIRCUS AND FAIRGROUND CHILDREN -- chapter 8 JUVENILE STREET TRADERS -- chapter 9 WAIFS AND BEGGARS -- chapter 10 VAGRANCY -- chapter 11 THE BLIND-ALLEY JOB PROBLEM -- chapter 12 EMPLOYERS, EDUCATION AND THE PART-TIME SYSTEM -- chapter 13 SCHOOL CURRICULUM CODES AND THE 'STANDARDS' 1862-1918 -- chapter 14 TEACHING METHODS 1860-1918 -- chapter 15 HEALTH AND SCHOOLING -- chapter 16 SCHOOLING AND THE UPPER CLASSES -- chapter 17 PUPIL SOCIETY AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE -- chapter 18 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE -- chapter 19 THE FORMATIVE RESULTS OF EDUCATION -- chapter 20 EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY -- chapter 21 EXPLOITATION, DISCIPLINE AND DUTY IN THE WORKING-CLASS HOME -- chapter 22 UPBRINGING IN THE UPPER-CLASS HOME -- chapter 23 THE CHILD PROTECTION MOVEMENT.
Abstract:
Discusses the status of children in society from the mid-Victorian period to the end of the First World War, showing that children were regarded principally as objects to be used and abused rather than people in their own right
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index. - Print version record
