British Industrial Revolution: Child Labor

Title: British Industrial Revolution: Child Labor
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British Industrial Revolution: Child Labor

The British Industrial Revolution (1770 – 1850) changed the social and economic life of Britain. It established a completely new way of living and working. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Britain was poor, though not without some economic surplus; relatively stagnant, though not completely static; and based on agriculture as its main economic activity (Deane 18). Because of the use of new food crops, such as the potato, and a decline in epidemic diseases, many of the major countries, …showed first 75 words of 2324 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2324 total…the British Industrial Revolution had revealed the need for an insight into the rights of a childhood to be preserved in children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** SOURCES “Child Labour”. Encyclopedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,24432+1+24058,00.html?query=child%20labor (March 5, 2001) “Child Labour: 1750 – 1900”. Spartacus Encyclopedia: British History. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm (March 5, 2001) Active UK Map http://www.ukguide.org/ukmap.html (March 12, 2001) Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. London: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

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