1st Edition
Labouring Children British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869–1924
By Joy Parr
Copyright 1980
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities. Between 1868 and 1925 eighty thousand British boys and girls, mostly under fourteen, were apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants in rural Canada. A surprising feature is the involvement of the... Read more
1. British Working Children 2. Salvation and the Safety-valve 3. The Promised Land 4. Family Strategy and Philanthropic Abduction 5. Apprenticed or Adopted 6. Household and School 7. Adulthood 8. Twentieth-century Policy
Biography
Joy Parr
