Download or read book The Industrious Child Worker written by Mary Nejedly and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of child labour have examined the experiences of child workers in agriculture, mining and textile mills, yet surprisingly little research has focused on child labour in manufacturing towns. This book investigates the extent and nature of child labour in Birmingham and the West Midlands, from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. It considers the economic contributions of child workers under the age of 14 and the impact of early work on their health and education. Child labour in the region was not a short-lived stage of the early Industrial Revolution but an integral part of industry throughout the nineteenth century. Parents regarded their children as potentially valuable contributors to the family economy, encouraging families to migrate from rural areas so that their children could work from an early age in the manufacture of pins, nails, buttons, glass, locks and guns as well as tin-plating, carpet-weaving, brass-casting and other industries. The demand for young workers in Birmingham was greater than that for adults; in Mary Nejedly's detailed analysis the importance of children's earnings to the family economy becomes clear, as well as the role played by child workers in industrialisation itself. In view of the economic benefit of children's labour to families as well as employers, both children's education and health could and did suffer.As well as working at harmful processes that produced dangerous fumes and dust or exposed them to poisonous substances, children also suffered injuries in the workplace, mainly to the head, eyes and fingers, and were often subjected to ill-treatment from adult workers. The wide gulf in economic circumstances that existed between the families of skilled workers and those of unskilled workers, unemployed workers or single-parent families also becomes evident.Attitudes towards childhood changed over the course of the period, however, with a greater emphasis being placed on the role of education for all children as a means of reducing pauperism and dependence on the poor rate. Concerns about health also gradually emerged, together with laws to limit work for children both by age and hours worked. Mary Nejedly's clear-eyed research sheds fresh light on the life of working children and increases our knowledge of an important aspect of social and economic history.
Download or read book Karl Marx Capital A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production London 1887 written by Waltraud Falk and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die zweite Abteilung vereint Marx' Werk "Das Kapital" in seinen autorisierten Ausgaben, einschließlich Übersetzungen, und alle direkt dazugehörenden Werke und Manuskripte, beginnend mit den ökonomischen Manuskripten von 1857/58.
Download or read book Children s Employment Commission 1862 First report of the commissioners With appendix written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Employment Commission 1862 Second report of the commissioners With appendix written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of the Labouring Poor written by Eileen Wallace and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay--sacrificing their health and education--while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufacturers such as John Dickinson, who built respectable housing for his employees, the overall picture that emerges during this period is one in which Hertfordshire's children arduously struggled to make ends meet.
Download or read book The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country 1860 1927 written by G.C. Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1929, analyses the changes to Birmingham and the Black Country in the nineteenth century. The area underwent quite a transformation: many of the older trades were decaying, while at the same time a number of new manufactures were making a remarkable rapid advance. As a result of this, the industrial structure of the area in the early twentieth century was made up of very different constituents from those of which is was composed sixty years previously. This is an invaluable study of a remarkable industrial transformation that was carried out in a very short space of time.
Download or read book Sweating written by Edward Cadbury and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the Children s Bureau written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norwegian Laws Concerning Illegitimate Children written by Norway and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Book Trade written by Marjorie Plant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, and as a third edition in 1974, this volume presents the results of original research into the economic aspects of the transition from the medieval manuscript to the modern printed book. It discusses the problems of supply of materials and labour created by the introduction of machinery and the growth of the literary market. The social evolution of the printing crafts is portrayed, focussing first upon the Stationers’ Company and later upon the trade union. The book traces the development of the author-printer-publisher relationship, and its bearing on the question of copyright and reviews, inter alia the organisation and price policy of bookselling from the days of legal maximum prices to the net book agreement. The 3rd edition contains sections on Public Lending Right, paperbacks, photo-copying in its relation to publishing and the rise of international publishing. .
Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children in Care 1834 1929 written by Rosemary Steer and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the lives of Britain’s children who were looked after by the government during the main period of the Poor Law Amendment Act from 1834 to 1929. For centuries, there have been children who have not lived with their birth parents for a range of reasons and have been taken into the care of the state, voluntary societies, other families or employers, temporarily or permanently. The origins of this book lie in Rosemary Steer’s study of the lives of over 300 children who came into the care of a charity in the village of Dickleburgh in Norfolk started in the 1870s by the Rector’s wife, Mrs. Louisa Brandreth. This book extends the study of children in care across the country to cover the main period of the Poor Law Amendment Act (the “new poor law”) from 1834 to 1929. Using a wide range of sources including contemporary social commentaries and inquiries, poor law records, charity case files, court records, newspapers, parliamentary inquiries, census returns, parish records and personal accounts, Rosemary Steer details the range of provision and explores the lives of some of these children, before, during and after their time in care. Research into the care of pauper children has usually been anonymized, but Children in Care includes examples of named children, and through numerous case studies, we hear these children’s stories, sometimes in their own words or those of the adults who had charge of them. It is unlikely that many of these pauper children would feature in any other study, other than individually within the context of family history, so this book also has the benefit of highlighting the lives of some of the least regarded of society. Praise for Children in Care, 1834–1929 “This is a very interesting book indeed, the work, effort and research that has gone into this by the author is incredible and I say that as someone who has had to trawl through these types of records before. It is the work of the author, Steer that makes it the success it should be. . . . I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but in particular I would invite all students who are learning about history, social history and even law to read this book because of its reliance on source material is fantastic which is why rate 5 stars and it will probably make my top ten books of the year.” —UK Historian
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of the Fields written by Karen Sayer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Item "describes the work that women did in agriculture, as seen in the parliamentary reports of 1843, 1967 [sic., 1867] and the 1890s, and the meanings given to that work in the local and national press, farming advice books, autobiographies and the art and literature of the period" -- back cover.
Download or read book Country Cottages written by Karen Sayer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about the country cottage. It is a thematic, social and cultural history of the country cottage as labourer's home, as gendered space, and as icon of Englishness.
Download or read book Infant Mortality and Working Class Child Care 1850 1899 written by Melanie Reynolds and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of working-class child care during the second half of the nineteenth century, seeking to challenge those historians who have cast working-class women as feckless and maternally ignorant. By plotting the lives of northern women whilst they grappled with industrial waged work in the factory, in agriculture, in nail making, and in brick and salt works, this book reveals a different picture of northern childcare, one which points to innovative and enterprising child care models. Attention is also given to day-carers as they acted in loco parentis and the workhouse nurse who worked in conjunction with medical paediatrics to provide nineteenth-century welfare to pauper infants. Through the use of a new and wide range of source material, which includes medical and poor law history, Melanie Reynolds allows a fresh and new perspective of working-class child care to arise.
Download or read book Industrial Hygiene and Medicine written by Edward William Hope and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
