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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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