Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first ma

The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish

Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twenti

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to th