Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Childs, Michael J - 1992

Hardback. Very Good.

Very good throughout with little sign of use.  No inscriptions or markings and not price clipped.

Hambledon Press , 1992 . Hardback. . 8vo blue cloth. The image on this page is of the actual book for sale. VG++ hardback (light edgewear, clean and unmarked) no dustwrapper.

London: The Hambledon Press. New. 1992. Hardcover. 1852851031 . xxiv + 223pp, bound in blue cloth covers. New; Octavo .

London : Hambledon Press in Association with McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 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… Read More