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 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 era of industrialisation, 1790-1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jane Humphries, Jane (University of Oxford) Humphries, Humphries Jane
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521847568
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84756-8
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Age groups: children, Industrialisation and industrial history