Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521248965
ISBN13:9780521248969
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:454 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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