1st Edition
Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain
By E. Royston pike
Copyright 1966
384 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young... Read more
Introduction
1. The Rise of the Factory System
2. Factory life and people
(a) Living Conditions
(b) Working conditions
2. Child Labour
(a) Parish apprentices
(b) Peel's Committee
(c) Sadler's Committee
(d) Children in factories
(e) Children in coal mines
(f) Children in trades and manufactures
(g) Child labour: for and against
3. Woman's Place
(a) The factory girl
(b) Factory wives
(c) Women in coal mines
(d) Girls of the pit bank
4. Sexual Relations
5.The State of Towns
(a) A gazetteer of disgusting places
(b) Chadwick the Sanitary Reformer
(c) Recreation and amusements
Biography
Edgar Royston Pike
