Childhood And Child Labour In The British Industrial Revolution Jane Humphries Cambridge University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business & Finance

This Is A Unique Account Of Working-Class Childhood During The British Industrial Revolution First Published In 2010 Using More Than 600 Autobiographies Written By Working Men Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Jane Humphries Illuminates Contexts Untouched Conventional Sources Facilitates Estimates Age At Starting Work Social Mobility Extent Apprenticeship Duration Schooling Classic Era Industrialisation 1790-1850 Apparently Saw An Upsurge Child Labour While Memoirs Implicate Mechanisation Division Increase They Also Show That Fatherlessness Large Subsets Common These Turbulent High-Mortality High-Fertility Times Often Cast Children As Partners Supports For Mothers Struggling To Hold Families Together Book Offers Unprecedented Insights Into Family Life Careers Its Images Suffering Stoicism Occasional Childish Pleasures Put Humanity Back Economic History Trauma Σελίδες: 454