"BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor." . . . . "Hertfordshire (GB)" . . "Enfants de familles pauvres Grande-Bretagne Hertfordshire (GB) 19e siècle." . . "England" . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Child labor" . . "Enfants Travail Grande-Bretagne Hertfordshire (GB) 19e siècle." . . "Child labor England History 19th century." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations." . . "Business Management." . . . . . . . "Children of the labouring poor the working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire"@en . "Children of the labouring poor the working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire" . . . "Livres électroniques" . . "Children of the Labouring Poor : The Working Lives of Children in Nineteenth-Century Hertfordshire" . . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . . "Electronic books"@en . . "In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps. In Hertfordshire, as elsewhere, children of a very young age worked long hours, received little education and endured poor housing, hunger and dreadful sanitation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Hertfordshire was still predominantly rural. A great many children worked on the land from an early age and were expected to be able to plough from ten years old. Other families employed."@en . "Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay-sacrificing their health and education-while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufac"@en . . . "Children of the Labouring Poor The Working Lives of Children in Nineteenth-Century Hertfordshire"@en . . . "History" . "History"@en . "Children of the labouring poor : the working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire" . . "Children of the labouring poor : the working lives of children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Hertfordshire (England)" . .