Author: Rae Atira-Soncea
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Master Sweepings
Author: Rae Atira-Soncea
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Observations on the cruelty of employing Climbing-Boys in sweeping chimneys, and on the practicability of effectually cleansing flues by mechanical means; with extracts from the evidence before the House of Commons, etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Factory Girls
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399011936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399011936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.
Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era
Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
London Labour and the London Poor
Author: Henry Mayhew
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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London Labour and the London Poor: the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work
Author: Henry Mayhew
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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The Water Babies and Glaucus
Author: Charles Kingsley
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Category : Chimney sweeps
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Chimney sweeps
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Nature of Chimney-Sweeping, the Attempts Made to Alter Its Character, and the Final Accomplishment of this Object, by the 3d and 4th Victoria, Cap. 85. 1840. [With the Text of the Act.]
Author: Robert Steven
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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The Casket
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Reports from Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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