Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Child Welfare and Social Action

pp 1-12

I - Gender and ‘Delinquency’

pp 13-14

1 - Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red-Light District of Montreal before 1945

pp 15-35

2 - ‘Just Trying to be Men’? Violence, Girls and their Social Worlds

pp 36-50

II - Child Emigration

pp 51-52

3 - Fairbridge Child Migrants

pp 53-81

4 - Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930–1960

pp 82-100

5 - Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea

pp 101-120

6 - Changing Childhoods: Child Emigration since 1945

pp 121-144

III - Rethinking Philanthropy

pp 145-146

7 - From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space for Late Victorian Poor Children

pp 147-173

8 - The Campaign for School Meals in Edwardian Scotland

pp 174-194

9 - ‘Blood is Thicker than Water’: Family, Fantasy and Identity in the Lives of Scottish Foster Children

pp 195-216

IV - ‘Welfare States’ and Child Welfare

pp 217-218

10 - ‘Fixing’ Mothers: Child Welfare and Compulsory Sterilisation in the American Midwest, 1925–1945

pp 219-233

11 - A Spirit of ‘Friendly Rivalry’? Voluntary Societies and the Formation of Post-War Child Welfare Legislation in Britain

pp 234-255

12 - Mental Incapacity, Ill-Health and Poverty: Family Failure in Post-War Britain

pp 256-276

Notes on Contributors

pp 277-279

Index

pp 280-294