Children's Work and Welfare 17801890 by Pamela Horn

Children's Work and Welfare 17801890 by Pamela Horn

This short book provides a succinct account of changes in children's work and welfare in Britain between 1780 and 1890. It examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the changing attitude of society towards it at a time when Britain was becoming the 'workshop of the world'. The further development of industry in the second half of the nineteenth century meant that the need for juvenile workers declined. At the same time the efforts of philanthropists and the State led to legal curbs on the kinds of jobs children could perform and the minimum age at which they could commence them. The author concludes that the century after 1780 saw a progressive lengthening of childhood as a stage of life, and that by 1890 children had been recognised as 'special cases' in need of protective legislation. However, for the poorest and most disadvantaged families life remained a struggle, and children continued to pick up a living where they could.

Dr. Pamela Horn taught economic and social history for almost two decades at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University). She'd published several books on social history issues spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many literature on child life and education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras are included. Pamela died in 2014, which was a tragic loss.

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ISBN 13	9780521557696
ISBN 10	0521557690
Title	Children's Work and Welfare 17801890
Author	Pamela Horn
Series	New Studies In Economic And Social History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-09-28
Number of pages	98
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