Research Catalog

Title

Discovering child poverty : the creation of a policy agenda from 1800 to the present / Lucinda Platt.

Author

Platt, Lucinda

Publication

Bristol : Policy, 2005.

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Details

Description

vi, 143 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion

Uniform Title

Studies in poverty, inequality, and social exclusion

Subject

• Child welfare > Government policy > Great Britain
• Poor children > Great Britain > History
• Poor children > Government policy > History. > Great Britain
• Child welfare > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-136) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

1861345836 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 56440218
• SCSB-10666612

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library