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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker! by John Malam · Booklabria

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!

Name: You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
Author: John Malam

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First published: 2007
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?

Subjects: History
Social conditions
Great britain, history
Occupations
Child labor
Textile workers
Set in: England
Great Britain
Manchester
Time: 19th Century

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