Cadets, Curfews, and Compulsory Schooling: Mobilizing Anglophone Children in WWII Montreal
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Cadets, Curfews, and Compulsory Schooling: Mobilizing Anglophone Children in WWII Montreal
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| Abstract |
An examination of the measures undertaken by the state for the mobilization and discipline of children during the Second World War in Montreal. The social policy measures were fuelled by images of absent fathers, working mothers and latch-key children, combined with the dramatically rising juvenile delinquency rate. Legislation mandating compulsory schooling and a curfew for juveniles permitted the state and its agencies to train and constrain children and youths at a moment when parental guidance and surveillance were ostensibly at their lowest. The authors examine how Protestant schools directed coercive strategies and protective measures at school-age youths in an exaggerated effort to create good children and patriotic citizens.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 38
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no. 76
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367-398
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November 2005
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en
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Myers, Tamara, and Mary Anne Poutanen. “Cadets, Curfews, and Compulsory Schooling: Mobilizing Anglophone Children in WWII Montreal.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 38, no. 76 (November 2005): 367–398. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/4253/3451.
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