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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Hatfield :
University of Hertfordshire Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Background to the children's lives; Chapter 2: Child labourers in agriculture; Chapter 3: The straw plait trade; Chapter 4: The silk industry; Chapter 5: Papermaking; Chapter 6: Brickmaking; Chapter 7: Chimney-sweeping; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.