In the 1930s, "teenage" was merely a linguistic truism, but by the mid-1950s we had a welfare state and a consumer society with its transistor radios and that crazy rock music targeting a post-school, pre-marriage age group. The ground was also being laid for the heady social changes of the 1960s. Intriguingly, the short foreword to this book was penned by Sir John Wolfenden, who produced his eponymous report that would ultimately lead to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the very same year.
Macalister Brew, whose place in the youth work pantheon was secured by Informal Education in 1946, intended the book as a revision of the seminal wartime document In the Service of Youth, but the wider social changes meant it turned out as something else. It is a mix of essays on theory, history and youth work practice in a society on the cusp of change.
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