
Labouring Children
British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
Joy Parr(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Will be published approx. on 15. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8020-7443-0 (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
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-7443-0 (9780802074430)
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Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario..