Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2010 book uses the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to shed new light on child labour, family life, careers and schooling during the British industrial revolution. It provides a unique account of working-class childhood in times and places untouched by conventional sources.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780521248969
• ISBN-10: 0521248965
• Artikelnr.: 33562156

Autorenporträt

Jane Humphries is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Sources, models, context
3. Families
4. Household economy
5. Family relationships
6. Wider kin
7. Starting work
8. Jobs
9. Apprenticeship
10. Schooling
11. Conclusion
Bibliography.