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Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Childs, Michael

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General SociologyBritish History

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ISBN10: 0773512896
ISBN13: 9780773512894
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Nov 15 1994
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

The three decades before World War I witnessed significant changes in the work life, home life, and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes of the working class as a whole, and helps to explain subsequent developments in English history.

Childs discusses working-class family life and considers the changes that becoming a wage earner and a contributor to the family economy made to a youth's status within the home. He explores the significance of publicly provided education for the working class and analyses the labour market for young males, focusing on apprenticeship, future job prospects, trade unions, and wage levels. Childs investigates the patterns of labour available to boys at that time, including street selling, half-time labour, and apprenticed versus free labour, arguing that these were major factors in the creation of a semi-skilled adult work force. Turning to leisure activities among working-class youths, Childs looks at street culture, commercial entertainments, and youth groups and movements and finds that each influenced the emergence of a more cohesive and class-conscious working class.

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