Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
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Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr's study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in women's history, family history, immigration history, and labour history. Out of print for several years, Labouring Children now has a substantial new introduction in which the author examines the historiography...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080207443X
ISBN13:9780802074430
Release Date:September 1994
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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