Labouring Children
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Author_Joy Parr
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- ISBN 9780802074430
- Weight: 322g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 1994
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr's study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in women's history, family history, immigration history, and labour history. Out of print for several years, Labouring Children now has a substantial new introduction in which the author examines the historiography of the history of childhood, particularly in the light of recent literature on sexuality and the post-structuralist critique. She also considers recent popular historical views of children and their relationship to professional history.
Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario..
