Hard at Work in Factories and Mines
Subtitle: The Economics of Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813336985
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Labour economics; Social history; Work & labour; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Employment Of Youth; Sociology Of Children; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Labor; Sociology - General; 19th century; Child labor; Great Britain; History; Industrial revolution; Labor economics
Description: "This book examines explanations for child labor in an economic context. A model of the labor market for children is constructed using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor.

The model is placed into a historical context and is used to test the existing supply-and-demand-induced explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.