British Industrial Revolution: Child Labor

The British Industrial Revolution (1770 – 1850) changed the social and economic life of Britain. It established a completely new way of living and working. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Britain was poor, though not without some economic surplus; relatively stagnant, though not completely static; and based on agriculture as its main economic activity (Deane 18). Because of the use of new food crops, such as the potato, and a decline in epidemic diseases, many of the major countries, …showed first 75 words of 2260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2260 total…British Industrial Revolution had revealed the need for an insight into the rights of a childhood to be preserved in children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** SOURCES “Child Labour”. Encyclopedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,24432+1+24058,00.html?query=child%20labor (March 5, 2001) “Child Labour: 1750 – 1900”. Spartacus Encyclopedia: British History. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm (March 5, 2001) Active UK Map http://www.ukguide.org/ukmap.html (March 12, 2001) Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. London: Cambridge University Press, 1965.