VICTORIAN FACTORY LIFE by Trevor May ( 9780747807247 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

VICTORIAN FACTORY LIFE

By:

Trevor May

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0747807248

ISBN 13:

9780747807247

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

18 May, 2011

Series:

Shire Library No. 496

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Description:

"Victorian Factory Life".

Synopsis:

Victorian Factory Life explores the lives of the men, women and children who toiled in the factories of Victorian Britain, manufacturing everything from hats, cloth and dinner-plates to beer and locomotives. It was a grim and often perilous existence of long hours, of meager pay and of exhausting labour and one into which many children were plunged at a young age. Generously illustrated with old photographs, artwork and pieces of ephemera, this book is a powerful evocation of the social iniquities that enabled the prodigious growth of British industry, a historical account of the great injustices with which many are familiar only through the works of Charles Dickens.

Illustrations:

50 b/w; 35 col

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Imprint:

Shire Publications Ltd

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