The guardianship of best interests [[electronic resource] ] : institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 / / Renée N. Lafferty

• Autore: Lafferty Renée N
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.732
• Soggetto topico: Poor children - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 19th century; Poor children - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century; Urban poor - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 19th century; Urban poor - Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century; Institutional care - Nova Scotia - Halifax - History - 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "We Need No Reform": The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal: Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness: Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility": Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics": Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- From Protection to Treatment: Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia.
• Titolo autorizzato: The guardianship of best interests
• ISBN: 1-283-90156-0; 0-7735-8794-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779475103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. : Series two ; ; 60.