Katrina Honeyman

Child Workers in England, 1780-1820 (eBook, ePUB)

Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317167945
• Artikelnr.: 45099431

Autorenporträt

Katrina Honeyman is Reader in Social and Economic History in the School of History, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Industrial Change in England 1780-1820
Chapter 2 The Poor Law and the Parish Apprentice
Chapter 3 Factory Apprenticeship
Chapter 4 The Supply and Distribution of Parish Apprentices
Chapter 5 Textile Enterprise and the Parish Apprentice
Chapter 6 The Costs and Benefits of Parish Apprenticeship
Chapter 7 Parish Factory Apprenticeship and the Nature of Work
Chapter 8 The Making of a Gendered Labour Force?
Chapter 9 The Exploitation of Little Children
Chapter 10 The Voices of the Children
Chapter 11 The Protection of Parish Apprentices
Chapter 12 The Neglect of Parish Apprentices
Chapter 13 Conclusion