Factory Girls : The Working Lives of Women and Children.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chrystal, Paul.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Factory Girls

Place of Publication:

New York : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2022.

Summary:

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

About the Author

By the same Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Before the Factory: Women and Child Labour in Early Civilisations

Women at Work in the Middle Ages

The Factory System &amp

the Industrial Revolution: Women and Children in those Dark, Satanic Mills

Women and Children at the Coal Face

Child Labour

Climbing Boys: Up the Chimney

Plate

The Factory Acts and Other Legislation

Philanthropy and The Industrial Village

Philanthropy: The Reformers

Early Feminism and Activism

Industrial Disease and Occupational Health

Factory Girls and Climbing Boys in the Arts

Endnotes

Further Reading.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781399011952

1399011952

9781399011938

1399011936

OCLC:

1417757164