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 "discovery" of the working-class adolescent. He goes on to consider the various attempts ...
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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 "discovery" of the working-class adolescent. He goes on to consider the various attempts to solve the problem: philanthropy (the youth movement); collectivism (a juvenile labor exchange and vocational guidance system); and further education (part-time continuation schools).
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 298 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 89070931 Type of material Book Personal name Hendrick, Harry. Main title Images of youth: age, class, and the male youth problem, 1880-1920 / Harry Hendrick. Published/Created Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Description x, 298 p.; 23 cm. ISBN 019821782X: LC classification HQ799. G7 H46 1990 LC Subjects Teenage boys--Great Britain--Social conditions. Working class--Great Britain--History--19th century. Working class--Great Britain--History--20th century. Teenage boys--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century. Teenage boys--Employment--Great Britain--History--20th century. Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century. Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-289) and index. Dewey class no. 305.23/5/094109034 Geographic area code e-uk---
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