A thing of the past? : child labour in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Michael Lavalette.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavalette, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child labor--Great Britain--History.

Child labor.

Child labor--Law and legislation--Great Britain--History.

Child labor--Law and legislation.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Child labour in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Contributors from the social sciences, history, and law question the sociological approach to child labor research, look at the continuities and changes over the past two centuries in the types of jobs children perform and their working conditions, consider the present state of knowledge about the child labor in Britain and Northern Ireland, compare the situation in the US, review existing legal controls, and discuss the proposition that children have a right to work under some conditions.

Contents:

Introduction: Child Labour

A Thing of the Past? / Michael Lavalette 1

Part 1 The Theoretical Context of Child Labour Research 9

1 The 'New Sociology of Childhood' and Child Labour: Childhood, Children's Rights and 'Children's Voice' / Michael Lavalette 15

2 Theorizing Children at Work: Family, State and Relations of Production in Historical Context / Michael Lavalette 44

Part 2 Child Labour in British History 69

3 Child Labour and British Industrialization / Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries 76

4 The Historic Viability of Child Labour and the Mines Act of 1842 / Peter Kirby 101

5 The Changing Form of Child Labour circa 1880-1918: The Growth of 'Out of School Work' / Michael Lavalette 118

6 The Problem that Doesn't Exist? Child labour in Britain 1918-1970 / Stephen Cunningham 139

Part 3 Contemporary Issues 173

7 Child Work in the UK 1970-1998 / Madeleine Leonard 177

8 A Peculiarly British Phenomenon? Child Labour in the USA / Jim McKechnie 193

9 Honoured in the Breach: Child Employment Law in Britain / David Cornwell, Katya Graham, Sandy Hobbs 216

10 Unenforced or Unenforceable? A View from the Professions / Ben Whitney 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-273) and index.

ISBN:

0312218117

OCLC:

39335648