368 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note
Includes index.
Contents
A collection of primary source documents written during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.
Rise of the factory system -- Factory life and people. Living conditions ; Working conditions -- Child labour. Parish apprentices ; Peel's committee ; Sadler's committee ; Children in factories ; Children in coal mines ; Children in trades and manufactures ; Child labour : for and against -- Woman's place. The factory girl ; Factory wives ; Women in coal mines ; Girls of the pit bank -- Sexual relations -- The state of the towns. A gazetteer of disgusting places ; Chadwick the sanitary reformer ; Recreation and amusements.