Centuries Of Child Labour

Author : Marjatta Rahikainen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351952880

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Centuries of Child Labour by Marjatta Rahikainen Pdf

Most historical studies of child labour have tended to confirm a narrative which witnesses the gradual disappearance of child labour in Western Europe as politicians and social reformers introduced successive legislation, gradually removing children from the workplace. This approach fails to explain the return or continuance of child labour in many affluent European societies. Centuries of Child Labour explains changes in past child labour and attitudes to working children in a way that helps explain the continued survival of the practice from the seventeenth through to the late twentieth centuries. Centuries of Child Labour conveys a richer sense of child labour by comparing the experiences of the Northern European periphery to the paradigmatic cases of Britain,and France. The northern cases, drawing heavily on empirical evidence from Sweden, Finland and Russia, test received ideas of child labour, through comparisons with Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Presenting the children themselves as the main protagonists, rather than the law makers, industrialists and social commentators of the time, Marjatta Rahikainen provides fresh information and perspectives, offering revelations to readers familiar only with the situation in France and Britain.

Author : Michael Lavalette
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780853236443

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A Thing of the Past? by Michael Lavalette Pdf

In Britain the phrase ‘child labour’ is associated with the past, with children going up chimneys and down mines. However, in reality British children continue to perform arduous jobs, and British multinationals exploit child workers across the globe. This book explores the theoretical context of child labour research before considering the history of child labour and concluding with the present situation in the UK and USA.

Author : Hugh D. Hindman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765626479

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The World of Child Labor by Hugh D. Hindman Pdf

"The World of Child Labor" details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout the developing world, and there is a global movement underway to do away with it. Volume editor Hugh D. Hindman has assembled an international team of leading child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists to provide a comprehensive reference with over 220 essays. This volume first provides a current global snapshot with overview essays on the dimensions of the problem and those institutions and organizations combating child labor. Thereafter the organization of the work is regional, covering developed, developing, and less developed regions of the world.The reference goes around the globe to document the contemporary and historical state of child labor within each major region (Africa, Latin and South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania) including country-level accounts for nearly half of the world's nations. Country-level essays for more developed nations include historical material in addition to current issues in child labor. All country-level essays address specific facets of child labor problems, such as industries and occupations in which children commonly work, the national child welfare policy, occupational safety regulations, educational system, and laws, and often highlight significant initiatives against child labor.Current statistical data accompany most country-level essays that include ratifications to UN and ILO conventions, the Human Development Index, human capital indicators, economic indicators, and national child labor surveys conducted by the Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor. "The World of Child Labor" is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive reference for high school, college, and professional researchers. Maps, photos, figures, tables, references, and index are included.

Author : Peter Kirby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230802490

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Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 by Peter Kirby Pdf

What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment? Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 - Offers a broad empirical analysis of how the work of children was integrated with the major economic and occupational changes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - Argues that working children occupied a unique position within the context of the family, the labour market and the state - Discusses the key issues involved in the study of children's employment In this clear and concise study, Peter Kirby convincingly argues that child labour provided an invaluable contribution to economic growth and the incomes of working-class households. Consequently, the picture that emerges is much more complex than that portrayed in many traditional approaches to the subject.

Author : Sandy Hobbs,Jim McKechnie,Michael Lavalette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 185109346X

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Child Labour by Sandy Hobbs,Jim McKechnie,Michael Lavalette Pdf

From Dickensian exploitation of orphans to the after-school jobs of students in the late 20th century, child labour continues to generate controversy.

Author : Katrina Honeyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317167952

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Child Workers in England, 1780–1820 by Katrina Honeyman Pdf

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.

Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139489287

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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries Pdf

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. 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 industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, 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.

Author : Katrina Honeyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317167921

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Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England by Katrina Honeyman Pdf

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.

Author : Robert Gordon McIntosh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773520937

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Boys in the Pits by Robert Gordon McIntosh Pdf

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's industrial revolution. Boys died in the mines in explosions and accidents but they also organised strikes for better working conditions but were instead expelled from the mines and lost their jobs.Boys in the Pits shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation. In what will certainly be a controversial interpretation of child labour, Robert McIntosh recasts wage-earning children as more than victims, showing that they were individuals who responded intelligently and resourcefully to their circumstances.Boys in the Pits is particularly timely as, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, accepted by the General assembly in 1989, child labour still occurs throughout the world and continues to generate controversy. McIntosh provides an important new perspective from which to consider these debates, reorienting our approach to child labour, explaining rather than condemning the practice. Within the broader social context of the period, where the place of children was being redefined as - and limited to - the home, school, and playground, he examines the role of changing technologies, alternative sources of unskilled labour, new divisions of labour, changes in the family economy, and legislation to explore the changing extent of child labour in the mines.Robert McIntosh is employed at the National Archives of Canada.

Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315290836

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Child Labor by Hugh D Hindman Pdf

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.

Author : Colin Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521892775

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Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France by Colin Heywood Pdf

The central theme of this book is the changing experience of childhood in nineteenth-century France.

Author : Hugh Cunningham,Pier Paolo Viazzo
Publisher : UNICEF-IRC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050711707

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Child Labour in Historical Perspective by Hugh Cunningham,Pier Paolo Viazzo Pdf

Author : Robert McIntosh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773568679

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Boys in the Pits by Robert McIntosh Pdf

Boys in the Pits shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation. In what will certainly be a controversial interpretation of child labour, Robert McIntosh recasts wage-earning children as more than victims, showing that they were individuals who responded intelligently and resourcefully to their circumstances. Boys in the Pits is particularly timely as, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, accepted by the General assembly in 1989, child labour still occurs throughout the world and continues to generate controversy. McIntosh provides an important new perspective from which to consider these debates, reorienting our approach to child labour, explaining rather than condemning the practice. Within the broader social context of the period, where the place of children was being redefined as - and limited to - the home, school, and playground, he examines the role of changing technologies, alternative sources of unskilled labour, new divisions of labour, changes in the family economy, and legislation to explore the changing extent of child labour in the mines.

Author : R.N. Misra
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 8171416462

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Child Labour in Hazardous Sectors by R.N. Misra Pdf

Contents: Child Labour in India: Some Issues, Role of the National Child Labour Project in Berhampur City of Orissa, Child Labour in India: Problems and Perspectives, Child Labour in Transport Sector A Study, Indian Child Labour: Challenges for 21st Century, Child Labour in Southern Orissa A Study, Child Labour in Hazardous Occupation: A Study of India and Orissa, Child Labour in Hazardous Engagements: A Focus on the N.C.L.P. in Bolangir, Study of Child Labour A Close Look, Child Labour: Causes, Consequences and Cure.

Author : Shakti Kak,Biswamoy Pati
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607306

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Enslaved Innocence by Shakti Kak,Biswamoy Pati Pdf

Enslaved Innocence: Child Labour in South Asia explores the historical, economic, and social factors surrounding the issue of child labour. It is often argued that child labour is the result of under development, large families, or cultural practices. This volume attempts to highlight the structural factors in capitalist societies that have made such exploitation possible, and to place the issue of child labour in a theoretical framework relating to capitalist modes of production and the need for the generation of surplus for capital accumulation. Extremely exploitative labour processes bring out the supply and demand factors of child labour. The persistence of child labour in an era of high growth and high unemployment levels amongst adult men and women points to an economic system based heavily on exploitative labour relations. As we move further into the twenty-first century, the existence of child labour in the world is a reality which must be faced. It is within this context that the present volume takes into consideration the changing global economic conditions and focuses on issues and strategies for the eradication of child labour.