Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution
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Bibliographic Information
Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution
（Cambridge studies in economic history）
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: pbk366.38||H9801269326
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-429) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sources, models, context
- 3. Families
- 4. Household economy
- 5. Family relationships
- 6. Wider kin
- 7. Starting work
- 8. Jobs
- 9. Apprenticeship
- 10. Schooling
- 11. Conclusion
- Bibliography.
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