Climbing Boys. A study of sweeps' apprentices, 1773-1875
Details:
- Author(s) Strange, Kathleen H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 146pp; illus
- Publisher Allison & Busby
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written for a wide readership. Deals with climbing children, the conditions under which they worked; the health and safety issues involved and the campaign to prohibit the practice. In the process of doing this sheds significant light on the industry itself