Labouring Children
British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
Joy Parr(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 5. October 1994
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-8020-0549-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-0549-6 (9780802005496)
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Person
Joy Parr is a Farley Endowed Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of The Gender of Breadwinners, winner of the 1990 Macdonald Prize for the best work in Canadian history.