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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution.

Abstract:: This is an account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the author 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 la...
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Humphries, J. (2010). Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. (hbk.). Cambridge University Press.

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Humphries, J. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. Hbk., Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Humphries, J. 2010. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. Hbk. Cambridge University Press.
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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication date:: 2010-01-01

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Language:: English
UUID:: uuid:64d5801a-36d0-4f14-8a26-a23a3047623c
Local pid:: oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15322
Deposit date:: 2012-01-27

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Copyright date:: 2010

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