| Description |
1 online resource (168 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Background to the children's lives; Chapter 2: Child labourers in agriculture; Chapter 3: The straw plait trade; Chapter 4: The silk industry; Chapter 5: Papermaking; Chapter 6: Brickmaking; Chapter 7: Chimney-sweeping; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps. In Hertfordshire, as elsewhere, children of a very young age worked long hours, received little education and endured poor housing, hunger and dreadful sanitation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Hertfordshire was still predominantly rural. A great many children worked on the land from an early age and were expected to be able to plough from ten years old. Other families employed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poor children -- England -- History -- 19th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Economic history
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Poor children
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| SUBJECT |
Hertfordshire (England) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
England
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England -- Hertfordshire
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781907396083 |
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190739608X |
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