Download or read book Demography and Degeneration written by Richard A. Soloway and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that "like tends to beget like," eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective reproduction. Soloway shows that the appeal of eugenics to the middle and upper classes of British society was closely linked to recurring concerns about the relentless drop in fertility and the rapid spread of birth control practices from the 1870s to World War II. Demography and Degeneration considers how differing scientific and pseudoscientific theories of biological inheritance became popularized and enmeshed in the prolonged, often contentious national debate about "race suicide" and "the dwindling family." Demographic statistics demonstrated that birthrates were declining among the better-educated, most successful classes while they remained high for the poorest, least-educated portion of the population. For many people steeped in the ideas of social Darwinism, eugenicist theories made this decline all the more alarming: they feared that falling birthrates among the "better" classes signfied a racial decline and degeneration that might prevent Britain from successfully negotiating the myriad competive challenges facing the nation in the twentieth century. Although the organized eugenics movement remained small and elitist throughout most of its history, this study demonstrates how pervasive eugenic assumptions were in the middle and upper reaches of British society, at least until World War II. It also traces the important role of eugenics in the emergence of the modern family planning movement and the formulation of population policies in the interwar years.

Download or read book Family Allowances written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Rights to Needs written by Raymond B. Blake and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the family allowance phenomenon from the idea's debut in the House of Commons in 1929 to the program's demise as a universal program under the Mulroney government in 1992. Although successive federal governments remained committed to its underlying principle of universality, party politics, bureaucracy, federal-provincial wrangling, and the shifting priorities of citizens eroded the rights-based approach to social security and replaced it with one based on need. In tracing the evolution of one social security program within a national perspective, From Rights to Needs sheds new light on how Canada's welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.

Download or read book Family Allowances written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies and Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Family Allowances in Practice written by Hugh Henry Rose Vibart and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Statutory Rules and Orders Revised written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local Personal Or Temporary Character written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Family Endowment Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Translations on Sub Saharan Africa written by United States. Joint Publications Research Service and published by . This book was released on with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kenya National Assembly Official Record Hansard written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-09-22 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.

Download or read book Labour Gazette written by Great Britain Department of Employment and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ministry of Labour Gazette written by Great Britain. Ministry of Labour and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Labour Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public General Statutes written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1925- includes measures of the National Assembly of the Church of England which have received royal assent.

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates House of Representatives written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: