Between wage labor and vocation: child labor in Dutch urban industry, 1600-1800.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Schmidt, Ariadne; van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise | Copyright information

Introduction

Francoise Loeram was only twelve years old when the Leiden draper Piere Blisijn employed her to spin for him for two years in 1640. In exchange, the girl received food, lodgings and a set of clothes, and at the end of her contract the sum of 15 guilders. (1) Francoise was not an exceptional case; in the seventeenth century many thousands of children worked in the Leiden textile industry. Nevertheless child labor is usually associated with the rise of industr...

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