Child Labor (original) (raw)

Definitions and Descriptions

• Introduction
• What do we mean by “Child Labor; or at what age did Victorian children begin to work”?
• The First Report on Children in Mines, May 1842 the Horne Report)

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• A Factory Owner begins the campaign against child labor
• Fun (a rival to Punch) on Crossing Sweepers, Chimney Sweeps, and other Street Urchins

Literary Depictions of Child Labor

• G. W. M. Reynolds on Child Labor in Coal Mines (from the novel The Mysteries of London)
• “Weep! Sweep!” (1864)

Recent Work on Child Labor

Humphries, Jane. Childhood & Child Labour in The British Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. [Recommended by Ruth Richardson]

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Last modified 8 June 2018