labours apprentices working class lads late de childs michael (14 résultats)

With lengthy bibliography & appendix of oral history material. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, no dust jacket. ISBN 0773509151.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Bibliography, index. 223 pages. Fine in hardcover, without dust jacket as issued.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 223 pages; Description: xxiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. Subjects: Youth --Employment --England --Working class --History. Summary: The three decades before the First World War witnessed significant changes in the working life, home life and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices, Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes of the working class as a whole and helps to explain subsequent development in English history. Beginning with home life, Childs discusses the life cycle of the working-class family and considers the changes that becoming a wage-earner and a contributor to the family economy made to a youth's status. He explores the significance of publicly provided education for the working class and analyses the labour market for young males, focusing on the role of apprenticeship, the impact of different types of labour on future job prospects, the activities of trade unions, and wage levels. Childs makes a detailed investigation of the patterns of labour available to boys at that time, including street selling, half-time labour, and apprenticed labour versus "free" labour. He argues that such changes were a major factor in the creation of a semi-skilled adult workforce. Childs then examines the choices that working-class youths made in the area of their greatest freedom: leisure activities. He looks at street culture, commercial entertainments, and youth groups and movements and finds that each influenced the emergence of a more cohesive and class-conscious working class during the period up to the First World War. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Very good hard cover. (see picture).

Etat : Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 223 pages; Description: xxiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. Subjects: Youth --Employment --England --Working class --History. Summary: The three decades before the First World War witnessed significant changes in the working life, home life and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices, Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes of the working class as a whole and helps to explain subsequent development in English history. Beginning with home life, Childs discusses the life cycle of the working-class family and considers the changes that becoming a wage-earner and a contributor to the family economy made to a youth's status. He explores the significance of publicly provided education for the working class and analyses the labour market for young males, focusing on the role of apprenticeship, the impact of different types of labour on future job prospects, the activities of trade unions, and wage levels. Childs makes a detailed investigation of the patterns of labour available to boys at that time, including street selling, half-time labour, and apprenticed labour versus "free" labour. He argues that such changes were a major factor in the creation of a semi-skilled adult workforce. Childs then examines the choices that working-class youths made in the area of their greatest freedom: leisure activities. He looks at street culture, commercial entertainments, and youth groups and movements and finds that each influenced the emergence of a more cohesive and class-conscious working class during the period up to the First World War. 1 Kg.

First Edition. 1992 1st edition in attractive turquoise binding with black lettering on pale blue background; a very clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Softcover. Etat : Fine. Stiff unmarked book in barely rubbbed glossy covers. ; 9.02 X 6.04 X 0.63 inches; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. Index. xxiii, 223 pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Price in pen on front free endpaper, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : VG+.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. The picture on our listing is a photograph of the actual book NOT a stock image.

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Hardback. Etat : Fine. Attractively bound in green decorated cloth. 230 x 150 mm. xxiv, 224 pp. A discussion of changes in the working, home and social lives of adolescent English males during the period up to the First World War. Childs considers how these changes contributed to the creation of a semi-skilled adult workforce, and to the emergence of a more cohesive and class-conscious working class. Includes appendices, endnotes, bibliography and index. Book.