This book examines the scale and nature of child employment in Britain and the changing attitude of society toward it in the years between 1780 and 1890. The author discusses the efforts of philanthropists and the State to regulate the lives and employment conditions of young workers, and examines the attempts made to improve the education and physical welfare of children in this period. She concludes that in the century after 1780 there was a progressive lengthening of childhood as a stage of life and a recognition of the "special" needs of children.
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This book examines the scale and nature of child employment in Britain and the changing attitude of society toward it in the years between 1780 and 1890. It studies the efforts of philanthropists and the State to regulate and improve the lives and employment conditions of young workers.
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At the end of the eighteenth century two opposing philosophies underpinned contemporary attitudes towards childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pauper apprentices, child employment, juvenile labour, child workers, destitute children, factory legislation, factory labour, child labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Poor Law, Industrial Revolution, Factory Act, Ragged Schools, Lord Ashley, Select Committee, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Carpenter, Children's Employment Commission, Michael Anderson New!
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At the end of the eighteenth century two opposing philosophies underpinned contemporary attitudes towards childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pauper apprentices, child employment, juvenile labour, child workers, destitute children, factory legislation, factory labour, child labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Poor Law, Industrial Revolution, Factory Act, Ragged Schools, Lord Ashley, Select Committee, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Carpenter, Children's Employment Commission, Michael Anderson New!
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- Parliamentary Papers (House of Commons and Command): Sessional Index for Session 1984-85: [Hc]: [1984-85]: House of Commons Papers: [1984-85] by Great Britain in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Final report on page 64, and Back Matter
- State of the Poor by Frederick Morton Eden in Back Matter
- Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth (University Paperbacks) by Ronald Max Hartwell in Back Matter
- Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson in Back Matter
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