Centuries of Child Labour argues that some of the conventional wisdom on child labour can be qualified, and even questioned, if we turn from the experiences of

In Britain the phrase ‘child labour’ is associated with the past, with children going up chimneys and down mines. However, in reality British children conti

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies writt

What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the s