Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

by Jane Humphries

Book Overview

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 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, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521248965
• ISBN13: 9780521248969
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"