Images of youth : age, class, and the male youth problem, 1880-1920 /

This is a study of the debate on male youth in the period 1880-1920, a period of time when male working-class youth was regarded as an economic, moral and social problem. The author demonstrates the long underestimated significance of the male adolescent in British society.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hendrick, Harry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Broad Context
  • Efficiency, Labour, and Politics
  • Aspects of the Juvenile Labour Market, 1900-1914
  • Defining The Problem: Work, Adolescence, And Personality
  • The Boy Labour Problem: The Economic Critique
  • Social Science and Working-Class 'Adolescence': From 'Idea to Social Fact'
  • The Boy Labour Problem: The Social Critique
  • Solving The Problem: Philanthropy, Collectivism, And Class
  • Youth Organizations: Organizing Boys and 'Making Men'
  • Rites of Passage: Origins of the Youth Employment Service
  • Day Continuation Schools: Creating the Adaptable and Efficient Citizen.