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Edwardian Boys and Labour in the East End of Sunderland: Welfare and work

Spence, J.

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Authors

J. Spence



Contributors

R. Gilchrist
Editor

T. Jeffs
Editor

J. Spence dss0js1@durham.ac.uk
Editor

Abstract

Based 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.

Citation

Spence, J. (2001). Edwardian Boys and Labour in the East End of Sunderland: Welfare and work. In R. Gilchrist, T. Jeffs, & J. Spence (Eds.), Essays in the history of community and youth work (77-94). Youth Work Press

Publication Date Feb 1, 2001
Deposit Date Oct 13, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Pages 77-94
Book Title Essays in the history of community and youth work.
Chapter Number 6
Publisher URL http://www.nya.org.uk
Additional Information The chapter is a contribution to a project sponsored and organised through the journal 'Youth and Policy' to recover and bring to the attention of professional workers the history of community and youth work.

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