Financing Cotton

Financing Cotton

Author: Steven Toms

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 178327509X

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This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.


Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library

Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)

Publisher:

Published: 1864

Total Pages: 1670

ISBN-13:

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"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.


Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

Author: Katrina Honeyman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1317167929

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The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.