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Historians have long recognised the importance of child health during the Industrial Revolution, but few have explored the health of working children in any analytical detail. In this comprehensive study, Peter Kirby places the occupational health of employed children within a broad context of social, industrial and environmental change during the period 1780 to 1850. The book explores the deformities, fevers, respiratory complaints, industrial injuries and physical ill-treatment which have long been associated with child labour in the factory workplace. The result is a more nuanced picture of child health and child labour during the classic 'factory age' which raises important questions about the enduring stereotype of the health-impaired and abused industrial child. Peter Kirby is Professor of Social History and Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Child labor --- Children --- Industrial hygiene --- Enfants --- Hygiène industrielle --- History --- Health and hygiene --- Travail --- Histoire --- Santé et hygiène --- History. --- Hygiène industrielle --- Santé et hygiène --- Employment of children --- Labor --- Age and employment --- Employees --- Health of workers --- Hygiene, Industrial --- Industrial health engineering --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Occupations --- Work environment --- Environmental health --- Industrial management --- Medicine, Industrial --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Employment --- Health aspects --- 1780-1850. --- Britain. --- Child Labor. --- Child Workers. --- Factory Workplace. --- Industrial Health. --- Industrial Revolution. --- Occupational Health.