CHST 2503 Lecture 2: Child Labour - Week 2
21 Nov 2016
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Childhood innocence: time of innocence, play, learning. Middle and upper class: class differences, children as financial assets, poor laws. Education: only boys of upper classes were educated, girls of the upper glasses were considered lucky if thy had a brother. Deemed unattractive if a girl was too smart: poor kids went to work. People of the upper class had people: cooks, nannies, maids, servers, wet nurse (woman who would breast feed the children, upper class children were well taken care of. Compulsory education: 1876 royal commission on the factory acts recommended that education be made compulsory to stop child labour, 1880 a further education act finally made school attendance compulsory between the age of 5 and 10. Industrial revolution: 1760-1840, began in england, mechanized textile production, capitalist economy, luddites, work outside the home (for all family members, child until 12/13 years then an adult, migration to cities. No experienced adult labourers all new.
