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Book Title: Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) Book Author: Jane Humphries (Author) Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series Hardcover: 454 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 26, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0521847567 ISBN-13: 978-0521847568 Book Description Publication Date: July 26, 2010 This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship, and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialization, 1790-1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanization and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large sibsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality, and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers, and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism, and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.  Reviews "Recommended." -Choice "This is a large and important book ... It deserves to become not only a classic study of childhood, but also of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. As Humphries herself notes, it has been a long time coming, but for the reader it has been well worth the wait." -History Today "Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution is richly innovative in its marrying of economic data with life stories. The voices of the children - stoical, matter of fact, and moving in their ordinariness - jump off the page. There is no other historical study of British labour during the industrial revolution that so vividly brings to life the world of the working-class child."-History Workshop Journal About the Author Jane Humphries is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Sharing WidgetAll Comments |
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