Cuestión juvenil y crisis económica en los Estados Unidos en los años del New Deal

This article focuses on United States Youth politics adopted during the first half of XXth Century. Previously given to the private and public local philanthropy, the Youth assistance moved into the hands of public authorities and social workers starting with the Great War. Quoting a specific program settled in 1917: The future of American Children in relation to the war, and postwar, this future became the core of a specific a national engagement forChildren and Young People’s education and welfare. It marked a new age in legislation and institutions addressed to the new generations, especially those coming from poorand discriminated social classes and from new emigrants. In 1919, a Children’s Bureau was the first office created by the Federal Department of Labor. Based on the Annual Proceedings of National Conference on Social Work the Author analyses the different steps of this private and public policy till the massive intervention in the field run by New Deal program with the creation of different agencies: the National Youth Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC had the purpose to safe the Youth from moral and social misery and unemployment, given them the possibility to achieve an education and a professional skill, controlling their time by leisure and sport. The camps created by the CCC are mentioned as schools where it was experimented a sense of community. CCC increased democratic nationalism, forming a generation send to the Second WW few years later. US economy registereda full youth employment only in 1942, when the youngest population was integrated in the industrial and military mobilization. After WW2 the youth question seems to evanish from the Federal agenda and the attention turned again to the childhood in the country and abroad, to children considered the main war’s victims and the greatest hope for the future societies, because not contaminated, as were also the young people, by ideologies.