Factory girls
Chrystal, Paul2022
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Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century.
Main title:
Factory girls / Paul Chrystal.
Author:
Chrystal, Paul, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2022.
Collation:
249 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399011921 (hbk)
Dewey class:
331.4'0941'09034331.409331.4094
Language:
English
Subject:
Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryChild labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryWomen -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryChild labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryIndustrial revolution -- Great BritainWomen -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryChildren -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryWomen -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryChildren -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryIndustryIndustry
BRN:
3168049