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Victorian Factory Life explores the lives of the men, women and children who toiled in the factories of Victorian Britain, manufacturing everything from hats, cloth and dinner-plates to beer and locomotives. It was a grim and often perilous existence of long hours, of meager pay and of exhausting labour and one into which many children were plunged at a young age. Generously illustrated with old photographs, artwork and pieces of ephemera, this book is a powerful evocation of the social iniquities that enabled the prodigious growth of British industry, a historical account of the great injustices with which many are familiar only through the works of Charles Dickens.

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Industrialisation and the Factory System /The Early Cotton Mills /The Range of Factory Work /Health and Safety /Women in the Factories /The Factory Worker at Home and at Play /Out of Work /Factory Life at the end of the Victorian Period

Victorian Factory Life Shire Library

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 6/10/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780747807247, 978-0747807247
      ISBN10: 0747807248
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Victorian Factory Life explores the lives of the men, women and children who toiled in the factories of Victorian Britain, manufacturing everything from hats, cloth and dinner-plates to beer and locomotives. It was a grim and often perilous existence of long hours, of meager pay and of exhausting labour and one into which many children were plunged at a young age. Generously illustrated with old photographs, artwork and pieces of ephemera, this book is a powerful evocation of the social iniquities that enabled the prodigious growth of British industry, a historical account of the great injustices with which many are familiar only through the works of Charles Dickens.

      Table of Contents
      Industrialisation and the Factory System /The Early Cotton Mills /The Range of Factory Work /Health and Safety /Women in the Factories /The Factory Worker at Home and at Play /Out of Work /Factory Life at the end of the Victorian Period

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