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STATE INTERVENTION

Elena Mattera

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EDUCATION DURING VICTORIAN AGE

State intervention

and child labour

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Index

  1. growth in popular education and literacy
  2. school attendance
  3. Charles Dickens and child labour
  4. child labour today
  5. a gradual "solution"

Growth in popular education and literacy

School attendance

Tendency for school attendance to decline during times of elevated economic activity as opportunities for children’s employment increased.

School attendance

Tendency for school attendance to decline during times of elevated economic activity as opportunities for children’s employment increased.

Charles Dickens and child labour

[...] Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate. [...]

Child labour today

Children worked in mines during victorian age

Children work in fields in Africa today

A gradual "solution"

1833

Factory Act

The English government begins to award grant money to schools.

improve conditions for children working in factories

Parliament passed a further Factories Act

1844

Forster’s Education Act

1870

1880

Education act

Technical Instruction Act 1889

1889

Elementary Education Act

1891

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