Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Jane Humphries is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Klappentext A unique account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the period. Zusammenfassung This 2010 book uses the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to shed new light on child labour! family life! careers and schooling during the British industrial revolution. It provides a unique account of working-class childhood in times and places untouched by conventional sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Humphries, Jane (University of Oxford) Humphries
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521248969
• ISBN: 978-0-521-24896-9
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Ser
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education