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Children of the Labouring Poor - The Working Lives of Children in Nineteenth-century Hertfordshire (Paperback, New)
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Children of the Labouring Poor - The Working Lives of Children in Nineteenth-century Hertfordshire (Paperback, New)
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In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working
children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in
agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking
and as chimney sweeps. In Hertfordshire, as elsewhere, children of
a very young age worked long hours, received little education and
endured poor housing, hunger and dreadful sanitation. At the
beginning of the nineteenth century, Hertfordshire was still
predominantly rural. A great many children worked on the land from
an early age and were expected to be able to plough from ten years
old. Other families employed their young children to carry out the
heaviest tasks in brickmaking. Small boys, in particular, were also
much sought after to climb and sweep chimneys, a practice which
continued until the last quarter of the century in spite of earlier
laws intended to abolish it. Many diseases afflicted these young
chimney-sweeps, although deaths and injuries to children working in
other industries were all too frequent as well. It is a common
assumption that, during the Industrial Revolution, factories and
mills existed only in the north of England but, as this book
documents, there was industry in the south of the country too,
including silk-throwing and papermaking, the working conditions of
which matched those in the northern manufactories. Drawing on
contemporary reports and illustrations, Eileen Wallace details the
contributions of the children towards their families' livelihoods
in hard times and the high price they paid in terms of poor health
and diet and missed opportunities for education - regular
attendance at school was unusual. Whilst there were rare examples
of enlightened factory-owners such as John Dickinson, an innovative
papermaker who built good housing for his employees to rent, the
overall picture that emerges is one of harsh conditions and
gruelling labour for Hertfordshire's children during this period.
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