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

By Joy Parr

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080207443X
• ISBN13: 9780802074430
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher