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9781857282498

Apprenticeship In England, 1600-1914

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  • ISBN13:

    9781857282498

  • ISBN10:

    1857282493

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-06-27
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

A social history of the changing fortunes of apprentices and the system of apprenticeship over three centuries of English history.

Author Biography

Joan Lane is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Social History at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
Characteristics of apprenticeship in Englandp. 9
The choice of a careerp. 33
Education the trainingp. 65
Pauper and charity apprenticeshipsp. 81
Work and leisurep. 95
The service industries and the professionsp. 117
The production industriesp. 137
The textile industriesp. 169
Unsatisfactory apprenticesp. 187
Harsh and criminal mastersp. 213
Apprentices at the end of the termp. 229
The decline of apprenticeshipp. 241
App. 1 The main clauses in apprenticeship indenturesp. 249
App. 2 Trade initiation ceremonies for apprenticesp. 252
App. 3 Advertisements for the return of runawaysp. 254
App. 4 Indenturing a pauper child, 1679p. 256
Notesp. 257
Bibliographyp. 287
Index of names and placesp. 297
Index of subjectsp. 304
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