Date: 2019
Type: Thesis
'There are many spare places at the table of life' : a global history of the child emigration schemes of the British Child Emigration Society and the New York Children’s Aid Society in the early twentieth century (1890-1939)
Florence : European University Institute, 2019, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis
HIRSCHBERG, Mairena, 'There are many spare places at the table of life' : a global history of the child emigration schemes of the British Child Emigration Society and the New York Children’s Aid Society in the early twentieth century (1890-1939), Florence : European University Institute, 2019, EUI, HEC, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64406
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Urbanization, immigration, and industrialization transformed the British and American economies between 1890 and 1939, making poverty more prevalent among the working class. In America, the depressions of 1893 and in the 1930s further aggravated the situation. People lived in great destitution in tenement houses: a 1908 census of 250 East Side families found that about 50% slept three or four to a room and 25% slept five or more to a room. Children often had to work to supplement the family income. In Britain, the impact of the First World War and of the depression of the 1930s, which was leading to an unemployment crisis, affected many families. In consequence, child and family poverty remained endemic in many working class families.
Additional information:
Defence date: 23 September 2019; Examining Board:
Prof. Laura Downs, European University Institute, (Supervisor);
Prof. Pieter M. Judson, European University Institute;
Prof. Paula S. Fass, University of California at Berkeley (External advisor);
Prof. Véronique Mottier, I.S.S. Université de Lausanne and Jesus College University of Cambridge
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64406
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/086602
Series/Number: EUI; HEC; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Poor children -- Institutional care -- England -- History; Poor children -- Social conditions -- England -- History; Poor children -- Institutional care -- United States -- History; Poor children -- Social conditions -- United States -- History