A Short Statistical Sketch of the Child Labour Market in Mid-Nineteenth Century London

The profusion of services and small trades that characterised the nineteenth-century London labour market makes it extremely difficult to arrive at any general understanding of the work of children and juveniles. This brief study employs published statistical materials and compares children’s occupa...

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Main Author:	Peter Kirby
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2003-09-01
Series:	Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1606

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description	The profusion of services and small trades that characterised the nineteenth-century London labour market makes it extremely difficult to arrive at any general understanding of the work of children and juveniles. This brief study employs published statistical materials and compares children’s occupations in the metropolis with the national picture. It argues that London contained exceptionally low levels of children’s employment compared with the rest of England and Wales. The preoccupation of metropolitan social observers with working children arose from the fact that child employment in mid-nineteenth century London was a marginal activity associated chiefly with the very poor.
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A Short Statistical Sketch of the Child Labour Market in Mid-Nineteenth Century London

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