Child Labour In The United Kingdom

Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489283
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution written by Jane Humphries and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.

Author : Peter Kirby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230802494
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 written by Peter Kirby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment? Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 - Offers a broad empirical analysis of how the work of children was integrated with the major economic and occupational changes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - Argues that working children occupied a unique position within the context of the family, the labour market and the state - Discusses the key issues involved in the study of children's employment In this clear and concise study, Peter Kirby convincingly argues that child labour provided an invaluable contribution to economic growth and the incomes of working-class households. Consequently, the picture that emerges is much more complex than that portrayed in many traditional approaches to the subject.

Author : Dr Katrina Honeyman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147240064X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England written by Dr Katrina Honeyman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.

Author : British Association for Labour Legislation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labour in the United Kingdom written by British Association for Labour Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Hillersdon Keeling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604493511
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labour in the United Kingdom written by Frederick Hillersdon Keeling and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Lavalette
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0853236445
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thing of the Past? written by Michael Lavalette and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain the phrase ‘child labour’ is associated with the past, with children going up chimneys and down mines. However, in reality British children continue to perform arduous jobs, and British multinationals exploit child workers across the globe. This book explores the theoretical context of child labour research before considering the history of child labour and concluding with the present situation in the UK and USA.

Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315290839
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labor written by Hugh D Hindman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.

Author : Frederic Keeling
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259103851
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labour in the United Kingdom written by Frederic Keeling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Child Labour in the United Kingdom: A Study of the Development and Administration of the Law Relating to the Employment of Children The Sub-committee held six meetings, at which various points connected with the scope and method of the inquiry, together with the practical proposals to be recommended for extending and enforcing the regulation of child labour, were discussed. The actual drafting of the Report was entrusted to Mr. F. Keeling, who acted as chairman of the Committee but the draft has been considered by all the members of the Committee and revised in certain details in the light of their criticisms. The local reports were drawn up by members of the Committee, with the assistance, in some cases, of the members or officials of local authorities. Much of the material comprised in the Report is original, in the sense that it has been collected by means of personal interviews or communications with the officials and members of local authorities, and is not to be found in printed documents of any kind. Official and other documents have also been freely used, a large proportion of them having been specially collected for the purposes of the inquiry. In addition to acquiring a complete collection of all bye laws made by local authorities throughout the United Kingdom for regulating the employment of children, the Committee circulated schedules to all the local authorities in England and Wales which are responsible for the administration of the Employment of Children Act, whether they had made bye-laws or not. The information secured through these schedules formed the basis of much of the material contained in Part IV. Of the Report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Katrina Honeyman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317167929
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England written by Katrina Honeyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.

Author : Leonard Horner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Employment of Children in Factories and Other Works in the United Kingdom and in Some Foreign Countries written by Leonard Horner and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: