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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hatfield :
University of Hertfordshire Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 little education and endured poor housing, hunger and dreadful sanitation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Hertfordshire was still predominantly rural. A great many children worked on the land from an early age and were expected to be able to plough from ten years old. Other families employed. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (168 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781907396083 190739608X |