https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d Reflecting on the nineteenth century en-us 2016-06-16 14:28:56 UTC 2023-02-25 14:10:49 UTC hello@padlet.com joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114836831 A different world?
' "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.' (L.P Hartley) 
But is child labour a thing of the past? ]]> 2016-06-16 14:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114836831 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114839028 Watch the video link from 20.37 to 22.24. ]]> 2016-06-16 14:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114839028 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114840749 Watch the video link from 23.14 to 28.46]]> 2016-06-16 15:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114840749 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114841867 To find out more about children at work in C19th Britain, watch the whole video.]]> 2016-06-16 15:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114841867 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114842041 Watch the video from 28.46 to 34.41

]]> 2016-06-16 15:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114842041 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114843301 See below a link to a poem from Victorian
 children's novel 'The Water-Babies' written in 1862 by Charles Kingsley. The novel mixes social realism with fantasy. The hero of the book is Tom, a young boy who is forced to work for a  chimney sweep and ends up reborn as a water-baby in  a magical underwater realm.

Kingsley was a social reformer who was concerned about the employment of children. In the novel and the poem, water has an important symbolic and spiritual meaning.  

 

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Coke Town
It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.  It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.  It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.  It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.

Extract from Hard Times by Charles Dickens]]> 2016-06-16 16:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114848422 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114850354 Read about child labour here:]]> 2016-06-16 17:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114850354 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114850827 Although this is a painting from the C20th, it provides a visual sense of what the writer of the  piece below  was aiming for.]]> 2016-06-16 17:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114850827 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852036 2016-06-16 17:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852036 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852468 In the C19th Century, Britain was a superpower with huge industries and services built on cotton, iron and coal. We also waged wars with our enemies and developed a huge empire which stretched across the globe. For many people, however, life was tough. In  the first half of the century, children from as young as six who came from poorer families had to work for a living. ]]> 2016-06-16 17:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852468 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852754 Many people worked in factories, mines or  provided services for the better off. It was a hard and relentless life. ]]> 2016-06-16 17:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114852754 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114853418
Higher level reading alert

This piece is partly based on the writings of a Bolton woman born in the nineteenth century.  The approach is quite academic but don't let that put you off. It provides interesting insights into how women's work has not always been fully understood and valued. It also shows how women had to juggle work with the childcare options available to them.]]> 2016-06-16 17:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114853418 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114855321 Here is a modern folk song based on the actual testimony of a young woman who worked in the coal mines in 1843.
Link to the lyrics http://www.songlyrics.com/the-unthanks/the-testimony-of-patience-kershaw-lyrics/]]> 2016-06-16 18:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114855321 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114856424            HARD TIMES]]> 2016-06-16 18:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/114856424 joanbarleycorn https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/116198866 This article is from the American news channel CNN may surprise you. 
(Also note the difference between how the word 'labour' is spelt in the U.K. and in America.) ]]> 2016-07-11 11:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/joanbarleycorn/8o0loufax73d/wish/116198866