Child Labor and the Factory Acts

Clark Nardinelli

The Journal of Economic History, 1980, vol. 40, issue 4, 739-755

Abstract: The industrial revolution transformed Great Britain from a nation of agricultural villages into a nation of factory towns. Many of the social changes accompanying industralization aroused the indignation of contemporary critics and later historians. Perhaps the most despised was the employment of children. Edward P. Thompson alleged “that the exploitation of little children, on this scale and with this intensity, was one of the most shameful events in our history.”

Date: 1980
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