The Politics of Childhood: International Perspectives, Contemporary Developments

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The Politics of Childhood — An Overview....Pages 3-12
Interpreting Children’s Needs: Contested Assumptions in the Provision of Welfare....Pages 13-31
The Politics of Modern Childhood: American Socialisation and the Crisis of Individualism....Pages 32-49
The ‘Shame of America’: African-American Civil Rights and the Politics of Childhood....Pages 50-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Child Labour and Children’s Rights: Policy Issues in Three Affluent Societies....Pages 73-89
Entertaining Guests or Entertaining the Guests: Children’s Emotional Labour in Hotels, Pubs and Boarding Houses....Pages 90-106
Growing Up in Poverty While Living in an Affluent Society: Personal Experiences and Coping Strategies of Dutch Poor Children....Pages 107-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Mobilising Family Solidarity? Rights, Responsibilities and Secondary Schooling in Urban Mexico....Pages 127-144
’Gypsy Children Can’t Learn’: Roma in the Hungarian Education System....Pages 145-165
The Invisible Child in Education Law....Pages 166-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Placing Children on the Political Agenda: New Zealand’s Agenda for Children....Pages 185-207
The Representation of Children in the Media: Aspects of Agency and Literacy....Pages 208-225
Family Law and the Construction of Childhood in England and Wales....Pages 226-244
Meeting the Challenge? Voicing Children and Young People in Mental Health Research....Pages 245-262
Future Directions for the Study of Childhood....Pages 263-271
Back Matter....Pages 272-280