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Child Labour in the industrial revolution:
causes, consequences, cures: Full Bibliography


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  • Bolin-Hort, Per. 1989. Work, Family and the State: Child Labour and the Organization of Production in the British Cotton Industry, 1780–1920. Lund: Lund University Press

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  • Vincent, David. 1981. Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: a Study of Nineteenth Century Working Class Autobiography. London: Methuen

  • Winstanley, Michael. ed. 1995. Working Children in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire. Preston: Lancashire County Books.

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