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Labouring Children : British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 / Joy Parr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802074430
  • 9781442676541
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.3/1/0971
LOC classification:
  • HD6250.C32 P37 1994eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr's study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in women's history, family history, immigration history, and labour history. Out of print for several years, Labouring Children now has a substantial new introduction in which the author examines the historiography of the history of childhood, particularly in the light of recent literature on sexuality and the post-structuralist critique. She also considers recent popular historical views of children and their relationship to professional history.

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Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr's study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in women's history, family history, immigration history, and labour history. Out of print for several years, Labouring Children now has a substantial new introduction in which the author examines the historiography of the history of childhood, particularly in the light of recent literature on sexuality and the post-structuralist critique. She also considers recent popular historical views of children and their relationship to professional history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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