Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850

Having argued previously that no records exist to allow a study of the health of working children before 1850, Kirby here concentrates primarily on the emergence of health as a central element in debates over the industrial employment of children during a crucial period of economic, social, and epidemiological transition. He describes the advent of larger and more regulated factories, mills, and mines, but focuses on the complex and often diffuse relationship between children's occupational health and the changing urban manufacturing environment. His topics are child health and the manufacturing environment; child health in the industrial workplace; certifying surgeons, children's ages, and physical growth; and the ill-treatment of working children. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)