A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy

Brown, John

Child Labor, Workhouse Abuse, and Cotton Mill Cruelty in Industrial England

8,70 €

ISBN: 9788027378159

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 113 g

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A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy is a stark documentary narrative of childhood abandonment, parish apprenticeship, and industrial exploitation in early nineteenth-century England. Following Blincoe from the workhouse into cotton mills, the book exposes beatings, hunger, deforming labor, and the moral evasions of a system that converted orphaned children into expendable machinery. Its style blends sentimental biography, investigative testimony, and reformist polemic, placing it within the literature of social protest that helped shape debates over factory legislation. John Brown wrote as a committed observer of industrial society's human cost, drawing on Blincoe's recollections to give public form to experiences usually hidden behind commercial prosperity. His purpose was not merely to record suffering, but to make it evidentiary: the memoir transforms one life into an indictment of parish authorities, mill owners, and a national economy dependent on unprotected child labor. This book is essential for readers interested in labor history, childhood studies, Victorian reform, and the origins of industrial capitalism's critique. Disturbing yet lucid, it rewards attention as both historical testimony and moral argument, reminding modern readers that progress, when unregulated by justice, can be built upon the bodies of the powerless.

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Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Memoiren, Berichte, Erinnerungen
Verlag:	e-artnow

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