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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tuttle, Carolyn. Hard at work in factories and mines. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 (OCoLC)654325297 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carolyn Tuttle |
| ISBN: | 0813336988 9780813336985 |
| OCLC Number: | 41531653 |
| Description: | 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Child Labor in the Past and Present -- The Employment of Children in the Economy -- Childhood and Adolescence -- The Availability of Child Labor -- The Market for Child Labor -- The Supply of Child Labor -- Wanted: Child Labor -- The Demand for Child Labor -- The Theory of Biased Technological Change -- The Textile Industry -- Employment of Children in Textile Factories -- Rising Relative Wages of Children to Adults -- The Mining Industry -- Employment of Children in Mining -- Rising Relative Wages of Children to Adults -- The Role of Women Workers -- The Employment of Women -- Women Working in the Textile Industry -- Women Working in the Mining Industry -- Is Child Labor a Fading Memory? -- Declining Employment in Textiles and Mining -- Is Child Labor Only a Memory -- The Number of Textile Factories in Great Britain -- The Number of Coal Collieries in Great Britain -- Efficient Household Model -- Exports of Textile Manufactures in Great Britain -- Production Processes in Textile Industry -- The Invention of the Spinning Jenny -- Produce of British Tin and Copper Mines 1790-1855 -- The Process of Coal and Metal Mining -- Cross Tabulations of Children in Mining -- Cross Tabulations of Women in Mining. |
| Responsibility: | Carolyn Tuttle. |
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