Children's Work and Welfare 1780-1890

This short book for students examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the changing attitude of society towards it at a time when Britain was becoming the 'workshop of the world'. The author consider the lot of children engaged in farming, mining, factory production and domestic industries, along with those many other children for whom work meant helping at home or perhaps carrying out seasonal and casual tasks.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: 1780s-1850s; 2. The impact of industrialisation: 1780-1850s; 3. Rescue and reform: 1830-67; 4. Work and welfare: 1868-80s; Conclusion: the working-class child in the 1880s; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index.

Summary

A succinct account of changes in children's work and welfare between 1780 and 1890. It examines some of the debates which have attached themselves to those changes and discusses the role of the state and of philanthropic organisation in bringing about change.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Horn
• Assisted by: Maurice Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780521557696
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55769-6
• No. of pages: 98
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 135 g
• Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History; New Studies in Economic and So
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries