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Images of Youth

By Harry Hendrick

Images of Youth Social Sciences

Images of Youth

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This is a study of the debate on male youth in the period 1880-1920. During these years, male working-class youth was regarded as posing a serious problem, not only economically, but also morally and socially. Harry Hendrick investigates the `making' of this problem, examining attitudes towards youth and its behaviour, contemporary perceptions of `boy labour', and the `discovery' of the working-class adolescent. He goes on to consider the attempts to solve the problem and create adaptable and efficient citizens, by measures including philanthropy (the youth movement), collectivism (a juvenile labour exchange and vocational guide system), and further education (part-time day continuation schools).

Images of Youth demonstrates the significance, long underestimated, of the male adolescent in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Dr Hendrick's carefully researched and thorough study illuminates such major issues as poverty, unemployment, race, class conflict, industrial unrest, and the nature of democracy. Drawing in a further dimension, he charts the development of child and adolescent psychology and its contribution to the definition and perpetuation of the youth problem. He argues that the images of youth forged in this period had important and far-reaching consequences for age and class relations. Today the study of youth is of major importance; this book provides us with a comprehensive picture of its beginnings.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
1990-08-23
Publication Date:
1993-09-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019821782X
ISBN13:
9780198217824
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
573 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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