Hard at Work in Factories and Mines. The economics of child labor during the British Industrial Revolution

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Chapters include: 'Child labor in the past and present'; 'Employment of children in the economy'; 'Childhood and adolescence'; 'The availability of child labor'; 'Market for child labor'; 'Supply of child labor'; 'Wanted - child labor'; 'Demand for child labor'; 'Theory of biased technological change'; 'Textile industry'; 'Employment of children in textile factories'; 'Rising relative wages of children to adults'; 'Mining industry'; 'Employment of children in mining'; 'Rising relative wages of children to adults'; 'Role of women workers'; 'Employment of women'; 'Women working in the textile industry'; 'Women working in the mining industry'; 'Is child labor a fading memory?'; 'Declining employment in textiles and mining'; 'Is child labor only a memory'; 'The number of textile factories in Great Britain'; 'The number of coal collieries in Great Britain'; 'Efficient household model'; 'Exports of textile manufactures in Great Britain'; 'Production processes in textile industry'; 'Invention of the Spinning Jenny'; 'Produce of British tin and copper mines, 1790-1855'; 'Process of coal and metal mining'; 'Cross tabulations of children in mining'; 'Cross tabulations of women in mining'