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Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 (Social History in Perspective) by Peter Kirby is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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?<br><br>Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870<br>- 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<br>- argues that
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- Author
- Peter Kirby
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Red Globe Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137172815
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Management, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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