The Politics of Childhood

PART ONE: CHILDREN IN THEORY AND HISTORY Introduction: The Politics of Childhood - An Overview; A.James & A.James Interpreting Children's Needs: Contested Assumptions in the Provision of Welfare; N.Thomas The Politics of Modern Childhood: American Socialization and the Crisis of Individualism; J.Block The 'Shame of America': African-American Civil Rights and the Politics of Childhood; R.de Schweinitz PART TWO: CHILDREN, MONEY AND WORK Child Labour and Children's Rights: Policy Issues in Three Affluent Societies; W.Heesterman Entertaining Guests or Entertaining the Guests: Children's Emotional Labour in Hotels, Pubs and Boarding Houses; J.Seymour Growing Up in Poverty While Living in an Affluent Society: Personal Experiences and Coping Strategies of Dutch Poor Children; T.van der Hoek PART THREE: CHILDREN AT SCHOOL Mobilising Family Solidarity? Rights, Responsibilities and Secondary Schooling in Urban Mexico; M.Blasco 'Gypsy Children Can't Learn': Roma in the Hungarian Education System; A.Tremlett The Invisible Child in Education Law; A.Blair PART FOUR: CHILDREN, POWER AND DECISION-MAKING Placing Children on the Political Agenda: New Zealand's Agenda for Children; M.Brown & J.McCormack The Representation of Children in the Media: Aspects of Agency and Literacy; M.Messenger Davies & N.Mosdell Family Law and the Construction of Childhood in England and Wales; S.McNamee, A.James & A.James Meeting the Challenge? Voicing Children and Young People in Mental Health Research V.Coppock Future Directions for the Study of Childhood; J.Goddard