Which two statements are correct?
1851 - 40% of 10-14 year olds worked
1851 - 2% of 5-9 year olds worked
1851 - 30% of 10-14 year olds worked
1851 - 3% of 5-9 year olds worked
What percentage of boys (10-14) worked in agriculture?
25%
40%
35%
What percentage of girls (10-14) worked in domestic service?
20%
30%
What year was 31% of miners in Durham and Northumberland under 18?
1841
1831
1821
17% of boys worked in a traditional role in the home doing which jobs?
Coal digging
Tailors
Shoemaking
Straw plaitting
Blacksmiths
23% of girls working in traditional roles in the home, doing what?
Stocking Makers
Shoemakers
Straw Plaiting
Labouring
Silk makers
In 1830s, out of 65,000 working women only a 1/3 were married, true or false?
How much of a mans wage did a women receive?
60-80%
40-60%
20-40%
Who found that in 1818 more than 1/2 of England and Wales cotton workers were female?
Chaloner
Berg
Burnette
What years were the factory act and mines act introduced?
1833 and 1842
1835 and 1841
1837 and 1845
Who claimed that women were more amenable to factory discipline and had more dexterity to cope with the machinery?
Sharpe
McKendrick
Which three historians claim that patriarchal ideology and 'separate spheres' reduced opportunities for women?
Rose
Pinchbeck
Valenze
Minoletti
Hartwell and Coleman believed what about child labour?
Politically motivated to show exploitation of children
Contemporaries did not share our ethical concerns
Children had to work as families did not have enough income
Nardinelli claims what about child labour?
Beneficial and education and opportunities were limited
Child work predated the IR
Child labour essential in early cotton factories
Thompson claimed child labour showed 'victimhood and exploitation and is a shameful even in our history', true or false?
Who claims that child labour was supplied for orphanages in the East end of London?
Pinchbeck and Hewitt
Humphries
Honeyman
