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- The Barnardo Boys
Thousands of British 'Home Children' were shipped to Canada as child labourers in a plot right out of Dickens Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Between 1868 and the 1930s, more than 100,000 destitute children in Great Britain were shipped off to Canada. An estimated two-thirds of the Home Children, as they were known, were under the age 14.
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Resource Type: Book Published: 1890 Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Childhood Under Siege
How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Free The Children
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 An account of children's rights activist Craig Kielburger's work with and on behalf of exploited child labourers.
- Home Children
Connexipedia article Resource Type: Article Home Children is a common term used to refer to the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were sent to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa from the United Kingdom. The practice of sending poor or orphaned children to English and later British settler colonies, to help alleviate the shortage of labour, began in 1618, with the rounding-up and transportation of one hundred English vagrant children to the Virginia Colony. In the 18th century labour shortages in the overseas colonies also encouraged the kidnapping of children for work in the Americas, and large numbers of children were forced to migrate, most of them from Scotland.
- Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest
Canada's Home Children in the West Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two million or more descendants of what were derisively known in Canada as 'home children'. Writer and journalist Sean Arthur Joyce was shocked to learn in middle age that he was one of those descendants.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Product of Mexico: Child Labor
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899 Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- World Vision Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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