The Failed Century of the Child : Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521535689
ISBN-13
9780521535687
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 3rd, 2003
Print length
386 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms
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Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented American effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to the country's children failed to reach its goals. The achievements envisioned were enormously ambitious and reflected entrenched but self-contradictory values and Americans' inconsistent expectations of government, which this book explores.
Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to America''s children failed to reach its goals. This account of the period reveals that the achievements envisioned were extremely ambitious and reflected entrenched, but self-contradictory, values as well as Americans'' inconsistent expectations of government. Based on extensive research, the volume analyzes the period''s public policies that affected children''s welfare, work, education, and health.
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