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Author_Katrina Honeyman
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child labour reform
clement
Cressbrook Mill
dane
early factory apprenticeship England
Early Industrial Labour Force
Early Textile Factories
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factory
Factory Apprentices
gendered division of labour
industrial revolution labour
Kidderminster Carpet Weavers
Large Families
Litton Mill
London Parishes
pancras
parish
Parish Apprentices
Parish Apprenticeship System
Parish Factory Apprentices
pauper apprenticeship
poor law history
Quarry Bank Mill
Royal Military Asylum
spinners
St Clement Danes
St George Hanover Square
St James Parish
St James Piccadilly
St Leonard's Shoreditch
St Leonard’s Shoreditch
St Mary Newington
St Pancras Parish
St Paul Covent Garden
st.
textile industry workforce
water
Westminster Archives Centre
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138273344
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Katrina Honeyman is Reader in Social and Economic History in the School of History, University of Leeds, UK.
