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Jul 3, 2012 · The establishment of these links forges a new synchronization between revised views of the industrial revolution and a revisionist history of child labour.
- Jane Humphries
- 2010
- A Lack of Education
- Traditional Child Work
- Children in Mines
- Children in Factories
- The Poor & Orphans
- Government Labour Reforms
As sending a child to school involved paying a fee – even the cheapest asked for a penny a day – most parents did not bother. Villages often had a small school, where each pupil's parents paid the teacher, but attendance was sometimes erratic and more often than not the education rudimentary in hopelessly overcrowded classes. There were some free s...
In the traditional cottage industry of handweaving, children had always washed and carded raw wool so that their mother could spin it on a spinning wheel, which then was woven into fabric by the father using a handloom. Craftworkers often took on an apprentice or two. Apprentices were given their board and lodgings and taught a particular trade by ...
Men, women, and children worked in Britain's mines, particularly in the coal mines, which boomed as they produced the fuel to feed the steam engines of the Industrial Revolution. All three groups had been involved in mining before the arrival of machines, but the industry's expansion meant that many more were now involved than previously. Children ...
Factories with new steam-powered machines like power looms were the great development of the Industrial Revolution, but they came at a cost. These places, especially the textile mills, were dark and noisy, and they were deliberately kept damp so that the cotton threads were more supple and less likely to break. The new mechanization of manufacturin...
Children without homes and a paid position elsewhere were, if boys, often trained to become a Shoe Black, that is someone who shined shoes in the street. These paupers were given this opportunity by charitable organisations so that they would not have to go to the infamous workhouse. The workhouse was brought into existence in 1834 and was delibera...
Eventually, governments did what the fledgling trade unions had struggled to achieve, and from the 1830s, the situation for workers in factories and mines, including for children, began to slowly improve. Previously, governments had always been reluctant to restrict trade in principle, preferring a laissez-faire approach to economics. It did not he...
- Mark Cartwright
these links forges a new synchronization between revised views of the industrial revolution and a revisionist history of child labour. M y recent monograph, Childhood and child labour in the British industrial revolution, looked at the role of child labour not as reconstructed from the
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Quantitative and qualitative analysis of these memoirs provides new insight into the role that child labour played in the British industrial revolution and thereby into the process of industrialization itself.
Mar 1, 2012 · Histories of child labor in the British industrial revolution have tended to rely chiefly on the extensive Parliamentary Papers, both the censuses and commission reports, and on pamphlet literature, with a focus on campaigns to stop or restrict child labor.
- Hugh Cunningham
- 2012
Jane Humphries, an eminent economic historian, has written a highly innovative, informative and intellectually rewarding revisionist study. The book infuses new life into a number of critical debates surrounding the role of child labour during the British Industrial Revolution – timing, causes, numbers, as well as the consequences for ...
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May 14, 2011 · She shows how shifting away from child labour occurs only with sustained improvements in wages earned by men, decreased wage inequality and legislative initiatives eventually put in place to protect vulnerable workers from lengthy working days. In other words, when workplaces begun to be regulated.
