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

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

Harry Hendrick

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1990

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Includes bibliographical references

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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.

目次

  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The broad context: Efficiency, labour, and politics
  • Aspects of the juvenile labour market 1900-1914
  • Part II: 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
  • Part III: 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
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Select bibliography
  • Index

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