Labouring Children
British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2000
- Category
- General, Emigration & Immigration, Marriage & Family
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442676541
- Publish Date
- Sep 2000
- List Price
- $78.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802005496
- Publish Date
- Oct 1994
- List Price
- $61.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802074430
- Publish Date
- Sep 1994
- List Price
- $45.95
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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.
About the author
Joy Parr is a Farley Endowed Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of The Gender of Breadwinners, winner of the 1990 Macdonald Prize for the best work in Canadian history.
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