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Spence, J A, 421135
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/418526Surname: SPENCE. Given Name(s) or Initials: J A. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 421135. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 51017.242189
Item: [2016.0049.50787] "Spence, J A, 421135
The Impact of the First World War on the Development of Youth Work: The case of the Sunderland Waifs' Rescue Agency and Street Vendors' Club
No full textEdwardian Boys and Labour in the East End of Sunderland: Welfare and work
Full text linkBased upon the information recorded in the Minutes Books of the Sunderland Waifs' Rescue Agency and Street Vendors' Club between 1901 and 1910, this chapter analyses the relationship between the benefits which accrued to boys who joined the clubs and the intentions of the club's sponsors to use the club as a means of enabling the poorest boys to access regular work. It demonstrates modes of resistance amongst boys and their families and relates this to the real conditions of work and home which characterised the lives of the boys
Working with girls and young women: a broken history
Full text linkHistorical knowledge makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary questions and the recovery of the history of youth work is no exception. It is tempting therefore to read the past through contemporary sensibilities and with a view to making a case for specific approaches to professional practice. Whilst this can be strategically useful and informative, the history of single sex youth work with girls and yougn women suggests that it is necessary to exercise caution in the process. this chapter argues that in the history of work with girls and yougn women the continuities of method and form obscure a deeper disjuncture in political philosophy and purpose
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