Childhood and child labour in the British industrial revolution.

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of a large number of autobiographies by working men who lived through the industrial revolution has demonstrated that there was an upsurge in child labour in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with children's work entrenched in traditional s...

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Main Author: Humphries, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing 2012