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Concept

Child Labor

Images

  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.
  • M0010961: Interior of a cotton factory showing the use of child labour
  • M0010961: Interior of a cotton factory showing the use of child labour
  • Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 15722i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 11879i
    • Books
    • Online

    Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.

    Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet. | Date: 1950
    • Books

    References on child labor and minors in industry, 1916-1924 / compiled by Laura A. Thompson.

    Thompson, Laura Amelia. | Date: 1925
    • Books

    Climbing boys, childhood, and society in nineteenth-century England / Peter G. Clamp.

    Clamp, Peter G. | Date: 1984
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