Definitions and Descriptions
- Introduction
- What do we mean by “Child Labor; or at what age did Victorian children begin to work”?
- The First Report on Children in Mines, May 1842 the Horne Report)
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- A Factory Owner begins the campaign against child labor
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Literary Depictions of Child Labor
- G. W. M. Reynolds on Child Labor in Coal Mines (from the novel The Mysteries of London)
- “Weep! Sweep!” (1864)
Recent Work on Child Labor
- Child Labour and Education Reform: A Bibliography (NB, especially recommended by Ruth Richardson, Jane Humphries'Childhood & Child Labour in The British Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.)
Last modified 7 August 2026