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A sermon preached in the chapel of the Asylum for Female Orphans, at the anniversary meeting of the guardians of that charity, May 19, 1773. By Beilby Porteus, D. D. Rector of St. Mary, Lambeth, and Chaplain in Ordinary, to His Majesty.

Date

[1773]

An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

Reference

15722i

Two chimney sweeps, one of them is feeling ill and taking medicine. Coloured lithograph.

Reference

11879i

Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.

Date

1950

References on child labor and minors in industry, 1916-1924 / compiled by Laura A. Thompson.

Date

1925

A young woman carrying a bundle of ferns on her back. Engraving by Edward Burton after Robert Herdman.

Date

[1864?]

Reference

27441i

A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.

Reference

15636i

Child labour: examples of child labour in different parts of the world. Colour lithographs, 1998.

Date

[1998?]

Reference

2026698i

China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

Date

[1970?]

Reference

997198i

Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

Date

1843

The state of the world's children 2000 / Carol Bellamy.

Date

2000

Child labour : a public health perspective / edited by Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker, Thomas J. Scanlon.

Date

2010

A boy employed by a farmer as a bird-watcher (?) in a cornfield. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1810.

Date

Jan. 1st 1810

Reference

674401i

Observations on the effect of the manufacturing system : with hints for the improvement of those parts of it which are most injurious to health and morals : dedicated most respectfully to the British legislature / by Robert Owen.

Date

1815

Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).

Date

Pub'd May 26th [1832?]

Reference

669498i

Part of

Political sketches by H.H.

Gas, coal and electricity ephemera. Box 1.

La protezione sociale della madre e del fanciullo in Italia e all'estero / Attilio Lo Monaco Aprile.

Date

[1923]