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Author Pike, E. Royston (Edgar Royston), 1896-1980.

Title Human documents of the industrial revolution in Britain / by E. Royston Pike.

Publication Info. London ; Boston : George Allen & Unwin, 1966.
1973.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HC255 .P5 1966b    Available  ---
Description 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.
Subject Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- Sources.
Industrial revolution.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century -- Sources.
Economic conditions.
Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Working class.
History.
Labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Labor.
Other Form: Online version: Pike, Royston, 1896- Human documents of the industrial revolution in Britain. London ; Boston : George Allen & Unwin, 1966 (OCoLC)580142362
Online version: Pike, Royston, 1896- Human documents of the industrial revolution in Britain. London ; Boston : George Allen & Unwin, 1966 (OCoLC)607746902
ISBN 0049420607
9780049420601
0049420593