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Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924

Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924

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By Joy Parr 

Between 1868 and 1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servants. 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,
This edition includes 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.
Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario.

200 pages, 6x9" paperback
Index
Bibliography
Photos
ISBN  978-0802074430 University of Toronto Press, Toronto , Canada, 2000 edition

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