1st Edition

Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

By E. Royston pike Copyright 1966
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people—who lived in and through the Industrial Revolution in this country and who had their part, large or small, in its development and helped to give it direction and impetus, to describe their experiences in their own words. All the documents quoted are original documents, prepared and written and set down in print when the Revolution was actually going on.

    Introduction

    1. The Rise of the Factory System

    2. Factory life and people

    (a) Living Conditions

    (b) Working conditions

    2. Child Labour

    (a) Parish apprentices

    (b) Peel's Committee

    (c) Sadler's Committee

    (d) Children in factories

    (e) Children in coal mines

    (f) Children in trades and manufactures

    (g) Child labour: for and against

    3. Woman's Place

    (a) The factory girl

    (b) Factory wives

    (c) Women in coal mines

    (d) Girls of the pit bank

    4. Sexual Relations

    5.The State of Towns

    (a) A gazetteer of disgusting places

    (b) Chadwick the Sanitary Reformer

    (c) Recreation and amusements

    Biography

    Edgar Royston Pike