An edition of You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker! (2007)
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want to)
By John Malam
Publish Date
September 2007
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Language
eng
Pages
32
Description:
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?
subjects: 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
Places: Great Britain, England, Manchester, Manchester (England)
Times: 19th century