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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Parr, Joy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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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

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