Author: PINCHBECK, Ivy. & HEWITT, Margaret.
Title: Children in English Society: Volume 1 - From Tudor Times to the Eighteenth Century. Volume 2 - From the Eighteenth Century to the Children Act 1948.
Description: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. & University of Toronto Press, Volume 1: 1969. Volume 2: 1973. Hardcover. This is a two-volume study of the social concern for children in Britain, ranging from the Tudor paternalism of the mid-sixteenth century to the legislation of the Welfare State in the mid-twentieth century.Volume I analyses various aspects of Tudor policy concerning children and discusses the ways in which later generations deliberately or unconsciously modified these policies. Volume II covers the period from the last years of the eighteenth century up to the first half of the twentieth, a time in which problems caused by urbanization, industrialization, the rapid increase in population, and failure to provide adequately for the welfare of children led to a new awakening of national conscience. Several light marks to top edges, some wear to dj including light stain to lower rear edge of volume1, several light marks to edges of vol. 2, otherwise good. B/W photos & illus. & fig. t/out text, Bibl., Index.Volume 1: 346 pp., ISBN 802016502. Volume 2: p.347-p.671., ISBN 9780802021038.

Keywords: Children English Society Tudor Times 18th Eighteenth 19th nineteenth 20th twentieth Century Act 1948 social attitudes welfare urbanization industrialization exploited deprived neglected delinquent sociology policy politics