Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first ma
A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and
The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish
Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twenti
Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern
