基本説明
This book provides a pioneering study of the remarkable shift in the nature of working-class childhood in the Victorian period from lives dominated by work to lives centred around school.
Full Description
This book provides a study of the remarkable shift in nature of working-class childhood in the Victorian period from lives dominated by work to lives centred around school. The author argues that this change was accompanied by substantial improvements for many in the home environment, in health and nutrition and in leisure opportunities. The early chapters examine life at work in agriculture and industry, in the home and elsewhere, while later chapters discuss the coming of compulsory education, together with changes in the home and leisure activities. A separate section of the book is devoted to the treatment of deprived children, those in and out of the workhouse, on the streets, and also in prison, industrial schools and reformatories.
Contents
Changing attitudes to children in early-19th-century England. Working conditions to 1867: agriculture and workshop industry; iron manufacture, mining and other industries; the factory system and the mid-century work situation reviewed. Home away from home before 1867: children at home; education and religious observance. Deprived children 1800 - 1914: children and the Poor Law; street chldren, waifs and strays, and criminal children. Further reform 1867 - 1914: work and school after 1867; the home environment; leisure activities.
