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Images of Youth - Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem 1880-1920 (Hardcover)
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Images of Youth - Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem 1880-1920 (Hardcover)
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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.
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