Industrious children : work and childhood in the Nordic countries, 1850-1990 /

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Imprint:Odense : Odense University Press, 1997.
Description:211 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3449528
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Other authors / contributors:De Coninck-Smith, Ning.
Sandin, Bengt.
Schrumpf, Ellen.
ISBN:8778382696
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "In the Large Factory Town" Child Labour Legislation, Child Labour and School Compulsion
  • From full-time to part-time: Working children in Norway from the nineteenth to the twentieth century
  • "God wouldn't send a child into the world without a crust of bread" Child labour as part of working-class family economy in Finland 1890-1920
  • Working Rural Children Herding, child labour and childhood in the Swedish Rural Environment 1850-1950
  • The struggle for the child's time--at all times School and children's work in town and country in Denmark from 1900 to the 1960s
  • Working children in Urban Iceland 1930-1990. Ideology of Work, Work--Schools and Gender Relations in Modern Iceland
  • Seeing Children's Work
  • Contributors