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Childhood Transformed
Eric Hopkins
其他書名
Working-class Children in Nineteenth-century England
出版Manchester University Press, 1994
主題Education / GeneralEducation / HistoryHistory / GeneralNature / Animals / Reptiles & AmphibiansSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Children's Studies
ISBN07190386779780719038679
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tHnCAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Childhood Transformed provides a pioneering study of the remarkable shift in the nature of working-class childhood in the nineteenth century from lives dominated by work to lives centered around school. The author argues that this change was accompanied by substantial improvements for many in the home environment, in health and nutrition, and in leisure opportunities. The book breaks new ground in providing a wide-ranging survey of different aspects of childhood in the Victorian period, the early chapters examining life at work in agriculture and industry, in the home and elsewhere, while the later chapters discuss the coming of compulsory education, together with changes in the home and in leisure activities. A separate section of the book is devoted to the treatment of deprived children, those in and out of the workhouse, on the streets, and also in prison, industrial schools and reformatories. Offering a fresh and more focused approach to the history of working-class children, this book should be of interest to all lecturers and students of nineteenth-century social history.