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Children working in factories was grim, but are you sure it was a disruption? I.e. are you sure life wasn't worse wherever the factory workers came from? I'm
by pg 18y ago
Children working in factories was grim, but are you sure it was a disruption? I.e. are you sure life wasn't worse wherever the factory workers came from? I'm not; factory workers weren't conscripted.
- ivankirigin 18y agoIt's certainly hard for me to know without reading more history. The most common job to compare it to would have to be farming, which was a hard life with different risks and rewards.
- pg 18y agoThe best book I know of on that transition is E. W. Bovill's English Country Life, 1780-1830. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=bovill&kn=country+life+1780 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=bovill&... Incidentally, his Golden Trade of the Moors is one of the best history books I've ever read.