Children of the labouring poor : the working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire /

In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps. In Hertfordshire, as elsewhere, children of a very young age worked long hours, received littl...

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Main Author: Wallace, Eileen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010.
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