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Child day-labourers in agriculture: evidence from farm accounts, 1740-1850<superscript>1</superscript>.
In: Economic History Review, Jg. 65 (2012-08-01), Heft 3, S. 1077-1099
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While child labour has always been an important part of the industrial revolution story, there is little quantitative evidence about the number of child workers in the 1740-1850 period. This article estimates trends in the percentage of the agricultural day-labouring workforce that were children. By using the wage level to identify child workers, it is possible to estimate child labour for a large sample of English farms. It is found that girls were rarely employed as day-labourers, while boys were employed about as frequently as women. The percentage of boys in the day-labour workforce increased until the 1820s and then declined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Child day-labourers in agriculture: evidence from farm accounts, 1740-1850<superscript>1</superscript>.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | BURNETTE, JOYCE |
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Zeitschrift: | Economic History Review, Jg. 65 (2012-08-01), Heft 3, S. 1077-1099 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2012 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0013-0117 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00616.x |
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