{"product_id":"victorian-factory-life-shire-library-9780747807247","title":"Victorian Factory Life Shire Library","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictorian 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndustrialisation 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742287692119,"sku":"9780747807247","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780747807247.jpg?v=1758383997","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/victorian-factory-life-shire-library-9780747807247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}