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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!

  • John Malam

5.00

1 ratings

The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?

Genres

  • Textile workers
  • Cotton manufacture
  • Social conditions
  • History
  • Juvenile literature
  • Great britain, history
  • Great britain, history, juvenile literature
  • Occupations
  • Textile factories
  • Child labor
  • Cotton textile industry
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About the author

  • John Malam

    born 1957-02-23

    4.46

    13 ratings · 421 works

Editions

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    Book House

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Book House

    Mar 10, 2016

  • Edition cover

    Franklin Watts

    September 2007

  • Edition cover

    Franklin Watts

    September 2007