This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies writt

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A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and

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

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,