Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 (Reprints in Canadian History) - Softcover

Parr, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080207443X ISBN 13: 9780802074430

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1994

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author:

Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario..

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 080207443X
• ISBN 13: 9780802074430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200