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Paperback / softback. New. The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is…
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Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force Paperback - 2016
by Katrina Honeyman
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- Title Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force
- Author Katrina Honeyman
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9781138273344 / 1138273341
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.318
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