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.
- ISBN10 0856648981
- ISBN13 9780856648984
- Publish Date May 1980 (first published 1 April 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Croom Helm
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English