Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

Diversity and Agency, 1750¿1914
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-1114-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Honeyman, Katrina

Goose, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, JonasHarvard, PeterStadius; Chapter 2 Child Sexual Abuse in Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London, SarahToulalan; Chapter 3 Charity Apprenticeship and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century England, AlysaLevene; Chapter 4 Compulsion, Compassion and Consent, KatrinaHoneyman; Chapter 5 Agency and Reform, Nielsvan Manen; Chapter 6 Care and Cruelty in the Workhouse, JaneHumphries; Chapter 7 Victorian Social Investigation and the Children’s Employment Commission, 1840–1842, PeterKirby; Chapter 8 Child Employment Prospects in Nineteenth-Century Hertfordshire in Perspective, NigelGoose; Chapter 9 ‘We Will Have It’, KathrynGleadle; Chapter 10 Changing Conceptualizations of Children’s Rights in Early Industrial Britain, ColinCreighton; Chapter 11 ‘Something in the Place of Home’, NicolaSheldon; Chapter 12 Moral Instruction, Urban Poverty and English Elementary Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century, SusannahWright; Chapter 13 Working Lads in Late-Victorian London, ClareRose;

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Goose is Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Katrina Honeyman was Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Leeds, UK.