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Author Honeyman, Katrina.

Title Child workers in England, 1780-1820 : parish apprentices and the making of the early industrial labour force / Katrina Honeyman
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in labour history
Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Contents Industrial change in England 1780-1820 -- The Poor Law and the parish apprentice -- Factory apprenticeship : structure, process and legislation -- The supply and distribution of parish apprentices -- Textile enterprise and the parish apprentice -- The costs and benefits of parish apprenticeship -- Parish factory apprenticeship and the nature of work -- The making of a gendered labour force? -- The exploitation of little children -- The voices of the children -- The protection of parish apprentices -- The neglect of parish apprentices -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography
Summary A major contribution to studies in child labour, this book explores the contribution of child workers and the particular importance of the parish apprenticeship system to early industrial expansion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-323) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Child labor -- England -- History -- 18th century
Child labor -- England -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Child labor
Kinderarbeit
Industrialisierung
Sozialpolitik
Kinderarbeit -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Lehrling -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Lehrling -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Kinderarbeit -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Kinderarbeit.
Lehrling.
Kultur -- Geschichte.
England
Großbritannien
England
England.
Grossbritannien.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754686699
0754686698
1317167945
9781317167945
1281208361
9781281208361
9786611208363
6611208364