new deals and broken promises : from raising the school leaving age to the Youth Training Scheme /
Dan Finn.
London :
Macmillan,
1987.
xxi, 242 p. ;
23 cm.
Youth questions
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 217-231.
For more than a century the state has prohibited children from obtaining full time employment and it has assumed increasing control over the conditions awaiting school leavers in the labour market. This book traces these developments from the introduction of compulsory schooling to the creating of the two year Youth Training Scheme.