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Child Labor in Victorian England
Title: Child Labor in Victorian England
Category: Literature / English
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Child Labor in Victorian England
Child Labor in Victorian England
“The report described the children as ‘Chained, belted, harnessed like dogs…black, saturated with wet, and more than half-naked, crawling upon their hands and knees, and dragging their heavy loads behind them’” (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country’s economy. Children, one of the main …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…WORKS CITED
Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas. New York: W.W. Norton and Company,
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“Child Labor.” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99 (Electronic Version), copyright © 1999 Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA.
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Harrison, JFC. The Early Victorians 1832 - 51. New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., 1971.
McMurtry, Jo. Victorian Life and Victorian Fiction. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979.
Yancey, Diane. Life in Charles Dickens’ England. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books Inc., 1999.
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