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1 online resource (xii, 358 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-353) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Nigel Goose and Katrina Honeyman -- Child sexual abuse in late seventeenth and eighteenth-century London : rape, sexual assault and the denial of agency / Sarah Toulalan -- Charity apprenticeship and social capital in eighteenth-century England / Alysa Levene -- Compulsion, compassion and consent : parish apprenticeship in early nineteenth century England / Katrina Honeyman -- Agency and reform : the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770-1840 / Niels van Manen -- Care and cruelty in the workhouse : children's experiences of residential poor relief in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Jane Humphries -- Victorian social investigation and the Children's Employment Commission, 1840-1842 / Peter Kirby -- Child employment prospects in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire in perspective : varieties of childhood? / Nigel Goose -- 'We will have it' : children and protest in the Ten Hours Movement / Kathryn Gleadle -- Changing conceptualizations of children's rights in early industrial England / Colin Creighton -- 'Something in the place of home' : children in institutional care 1850-1918 / Nicola Sheldon -- Moral instruction, urban poverty and English elementary schools in the late nineteenth century / Susannah Wright -- Working lads in late Victorian London / Clare Rose. |
| Summary |
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 chil. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child labor -- Great Britain -- History.
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Child labor. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Children -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Children. |
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Social conditions. |
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Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
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Industrial revolution. |
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Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Added Author |
Goose, Nigel.
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Honeyman, Katrina.
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| Added Title |
Childhood and Child Labor in Industrial England |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Childhood and child labour in industrial England. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2013 9781409411147 (DLC) 2013002717 (OCoLC)820780307 |
| ISBN |
9781409411154 (electronic book) |
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140941115X (electronic book) |
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9781409411147 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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