Child Poverty in Historical Perspective : From 1900 to the Present

This book combines detailed historical investigation with original empirical analysis and an understanding of the most recent developments in child poverty research, in order to help us to understand why child poverty has come to be seen as such a pressing problem today, the particular form that problem has taken, and how the state has responded. Researching Child Poverty draws on approaches from social history, economic history, social policy, the sociology of childhood and contemporary empirical poverty research.Platt, Lucinda is the author of 'Child Poverty in Historical Perspective : From 1900 to the Present', published 2011 under ISBN 9780415339483 and ISBN 0415339480.