"The Exploitation of Little Children": Child Labor and the Family Economy in the Industrial Revolution.
The effects of industrialization on children′s work were investigated using a data set of household budgets. We found that in early industrialization the number of children working, and the number working in factories both increased, while the age at which children started work decreased. This last...
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Elsevier
1995
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