Labouring Children
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...
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...
