EDUCATION DURING VICTORIAN AGE
State intervention
and child labour
elena.mattera@gmail.com
Index
- growth in popular education and literacy
- school attendance
- Charles Dickens and child labour
- child labour today
- 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
Thanks!
STATE INTERVENTION
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EDUCATION DURING VICTORIAN AGE
State intervention
and child labour
elena.mattera@gmail.com
Index
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
Thanks!