[email protected] wrote:
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> I would like a little more information about women "taking their 
> children to work" (as if the industrial revolution were kind of like 
> one big take your kids to work day). The impression I had was that 
> children were SENT to work. Not to be watched but to contribute to the 
> family income.)

It was both. When women started working in factories in the early 19th 
century, there was no choice but to take the children to work. It wasn't 
long between children that were old enough started working as well. The 
first (UK) Factories Act (1833) regulated the used of children as labor. 
The second Factories Act (1844) regulated the use of women.

Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada

 

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