Title The failed century of the child : governing America's young in the twentieth century / Judith Sealander.

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Cambridge UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 374 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	pt. I. Children's welfare. Juvenile justice: from "child saving" to "public accountability" ; "The Pontius Pilate routine": government responses to child abuse ; "Illusory promises": state aid to poor children -- pt. II. Children's Work. "Inducting into adulthood": state reactions to the labor of children and adolescents -- pt. III. Children's education. "Laying down principles in the dark": the consequences of compulsory secondary education ; The return of the infant school: twentieth century preschool education ; Public education of disabled children: "rewriting one of the saddest chapters" -- pt. IV. Children's health. "Shaped up" by the state: government attempts to improve children's diets, exercise regimes, and physical fitness ; Mandatory medicine: twentieth-century childhood immunization ; Conclusion: two cheers for a "failed" century.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Children -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Children -- Government policy.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Children.
	Child welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Child welfare.
	Children -- Services for -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Children -- Services for.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Children.
Other Form:	Print version: Sealander, Judith. Failed century of the child. Cambridge UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521828783 0521535689 (DLC) 2003048460 (OCoLC)51967417
ISBN	9780511511608 (electronic book)
	0511511604 (electronic book)
	0511062850 (electronic book)
	9780511062858 (electronic book)
	0511121571 (electronic book)
	9780511121579 (electronic book)
	0521828783 (Cloth)
	0521535689 (Paper)
Standard No.	9780511062858 (electronic bk.)

Title The failed century of the child : governing America's young in the twentieth century / Judith Sealander.

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