Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Contents 3
3. Tables, Figures and Illustrations 4
4. Introduction 11
5. British Working Children 14
6. Salvation and the Safety-Valve 27
7. The Promised Land 45
8. Family Strategy and Philanthropic Abduction 62
9. Apprenticed or Adopted 82
10. Household and School 99
11. Adulthood 123
12. Twentieth-Century Policy 142
13. Appendix: Analysis of Case Records 158
14. Select Bibliography 162
15. Index 177