Take the Children
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A 2000 self-published book by Alan Brown that draws on the evidence collected by Assistant Commissioner John Edward White for the 1862 Children's Employment Commission on child bobbin lacemakers in the Honiton (Devon) and East Midlands lace districts. It quotes interviews with lace girls, lace-school mistresses, manufacturers, dealers, clergy and teachers on the lace trade's supply system, wages, the truck (payment in goods) system, hours, schooling and health conditions in cramped lace schools. A postscript covers the Commissioners' recommendations. It is illustrated with period engravings and photographs of Honiton, Bucks Point and braid-work lace, and has no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 49
- Archive notes
- posted with written permission from the author.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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