Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution: Conclusions
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution: Conclusions
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英国工业革命中的童年和童工：结论
DOI：
10.1017/cbo9780511780455.012
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
J. Humphries
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作者：
J. Humphries
这是一本关于英国工业革命期间工人阶级童年的独特记述，于2010年首次出版。简·汉弗莱斯（Jane Humphries）使用了18世纪和19世纪工人所写的600多本自传，在传统资料未触及的背景下阐明了工人阶级的童年，并有助于估计开始工作的年龄，社会流动性，学徒的程度和上学的时间。在1790 - 1850年的工业化经典时期，童工现象明显激增。虽然回忆录暗示了机械化和劳动分工在这种增长中的作用，但它们也表明，在这个动荡、高死亡率和高生育率的时代，失去父亲和大量的子集很常见，这往往使孩子成为母亲的伴侣和支持者，努力维持家庭的团结。这本书对童工、家庭生活、职业和学校教育提供了前所未有的见解。它描绘的苦难、坚忍和偶尔的童趣，将人性带回了经济史，将创伤带回了工业革命。
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.