Centuries Of Child Labour
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| Author | : Marjatta Rahikainen |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351952889 |
Centuries of Child Labour argues that some of the conventional wisdom on child labour can be qualified, and even questioned, if we turn from the experiences of leading 19th century countries, such as Britain and France, to economically and politically weaker countries of Northern Europe. Taking a long term perspective, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Marjatta Rahikainen conveys a richer sense of child labour, by comparing the experiences of the Northern European (Scandinavian) periphery to the paradigmatic cases of Britain and France.
| Author | : Hugh D Hindman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2016-09-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1315290839 |
Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.
| Author | : Jane Humphries |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2010-06-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139489283 |
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 era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
| Author | : Harriet Isecke |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2009-05-06 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1433392569 |
In Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution, two sisters work in a linen mill under horrible conditions. Years later, the girls, now women, are about to receive an honor for an interview with the National Child Labor Committee.
| Author | : Colin Heywood |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2002-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521892773 |
The central theme of this book is the changing experience of childhood in nineteenth-century France.
| Author | : Dr Katrina Honeyman |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2013-11-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147240064X |
The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.
| Author | : Chaim M. Rosenberg |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2013-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476602727 |
At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.
| Author | : Peter Kirby |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2017-04-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230802494 |
What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment? Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 - Offers a broad empirical analysis of how the work of children was integrated with the major economic and occupational changes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - Argues that working children occupied a unique position within the context of the family, the labour market and the state - Discusses the key issues involved in the study of children's employment In this clear and concise study, Peter Kirby convincingly argues that child labour provided an invaluable contribution to economic growth and the incomes of working-class households. Consequently, the picture that emerges is much more complex than that portrayed in many traditional approaches to the subject.
| Author | : Katrina Honeyman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2016-05-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317167953 |
The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
| Author | : Boris B. Gorshkov |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780822943839 |
The first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution of 1917, and an examination of the laws that would establish children's labor rights.
