Boys in the pits : child labour in coal mining / Robert McIntosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntosh, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child labor--Canada--History.

Child labor.

Coal miners--Canada--History.

Coal miners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Boys in the Pits shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation. In what will certainly be a controversial interpretation of child labour, Robert McIntosh recasts wage-earning children as more than victims, showing that they were individuals who responded intelligently and resourcefully to their circumstances. Boys in the Pits is particularly timely as, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, accepted by the General assembly in 1989, child labour still occurs throughout the world and continues to generate controversy. McIntosh provides an important new perspective from which to consider these debates, reorienting our approach to child labour, explaining rather than condemning the practice. Within the broader social context of the period, where the place of children was being redefined as - and limited to - the home, school, and playground, he examines the role of changing technologies, alternative sources of unskilled labour, new divisions of labour, changes in the family economy, and legislation to explore the changing extent of child labour in the mines.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Making of Modern Childhood

Miners, Mine Operators, and Child Labour

Coal Mining Technology and Child Labour

The State and Pit Boys

The Mining Family

Boys in the Mining Community

Boys in the Pits

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85884-X

9786612858840

0-7735-6867-0

OCLC:

180773074