Roger Davidson

Gebundenes Buch

Whitehall and the Labour Problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain

A Study in Official Statistics and Social Control

Beschreibung

This study makes a significant contribution to the recent debate over the nature and motivation of late-Victorian and Edwardian social policy. It provides a case study with which to assess the hypotheses put forward by social scientists as to the relationship between social statistics and policy.

Autor

Roger Davidson is Emeritus Professor of Social History in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history of medical and governmental responses to sexual issues. He is author of Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland (2000), The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 (2012), and Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900 (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032806341
• ISBN-10: 1032806346
• Artikelnr.: 71640852