| Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 Contributor(s): Parr, Joy (Author) |
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ISBN: 080207443X ISBN-13: 9780802074430 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: Between 1868 and 1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servants. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 331.310 |
| LCCN: 95104383 |
| Series: Reprints in Canadian History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.99" W x 9.02" (0.65 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parr, Joy: - Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario.. |