ABSTRACT
This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It also discusses the efforts made by voluntary organisations to provide school meals, as well as examining the quality of the meals themselves, before the enactment of remedial legislation in the early twentieth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|98 pages
The Working Classes and the 1870 Act
part Two|53 pages
The Schools and the Social Services
part Three|60 pages
In and Out of the School