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 2010 account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 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, Humphries Jane
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521847568
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84756-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; European History, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General