Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution / Jane Humphries.
Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution / Jane Humphries.
Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution / Jane Humphries.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N331.31094/4
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2010.
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"This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. 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, socia...
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Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution / Jane Humphries.
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Cambridge studies in economic history.
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N331.31094/4
Record Identifier
74VKm2L4LJ4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKm2L4LJ4b
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0521847567 (hardback)
9780521847568 (hardback)
DDC
331.31094109034
MMS ID
991020445239702626
