Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Tables and Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• 1 - Child Labor in the Past and Present 1
• Notes 40
• 2 - The Availability of Child Labor 43
• Notes 71
• 3 - Wanted: Child Labor 75
• Notes 91
• 4 - The Textile Industry 95
• Notes 138
• 5 - The Mining Industry 141
• Notes 181
• 6 - The Role of Women Workers 183
• Notes 210
• 7 - Is Child Labor a Fading Memory? 213
• Notes 255
• Appendix 1 - The Number of Textile Factories in Great Britain 257
• Appendix 2 - The Number of Coal Collieries in Great Britain 261
• Appendix 3 - Efficient Household Model 263
• Appendix 4 - Exports of Textile Manufactures in Great Britain 264
• Appendix 5 - Production Processes in Textile Industry 266
• Appendix 6 - The Invention of the Spinning Jenny 273
• Appendix 7 - Produce of British Tin and Copper Mines from 1790-1855 274
• Appendix 8 - The Process of Coal & Metal Mining 276
• Appendix 9 - Cross- Tabulation of Children in Mining 279
• Appendix 10 - Cross-Tabulation of Women in Mining 280
• References 281
• Index 301

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