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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Parr, Joy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; The New Social History, Twenty Years On --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; 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 --; Appendix: Analysis of Case Records --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442676541; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442676541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joy Parr.

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.