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Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution Hardcover - 1999

by Tuttle, Carolyn

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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text examines explanations for child labor in an economic context by presenting a model of the labor market for children using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor; the model is placed into historical context to test the existing supply-and-demand explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial revolution. 308 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Carolyn Tuttle is professor of economics and director of the Learning and Teaching Center at Lake Forest College. She has taught at Lake Forest College for the past fifteen years and is currently a visiting professor in the department of economics at Northwestern University. She spent her sabbatical at Oxford University researching the nature of child labor during the British Industrial Revolution. In her academic career she has taught courses on child labor and is the author of the recent article, "A Revival of the Pessimist View: Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution," published in the journal Research in Economic History .

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