Family harvest time

P DX368 PH2/9/53

late nineteenth century

type: PRINT, dimensions: 1 photographic print; b&w; 20.5 x 13cm (length x height)

English

Harvesting- hay, at work, Graphic Materials

<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>1. &lt;B&gt;Family harvest time, Late nineteenth century&lt;/B&gt;&lt;P&gt;The photograph shows a pleasant scene from a farming community, where the task of collecting the corn was treated as a major event with many families involved. The majority of children who worked in the countryside in the nineteenth century came from the poorer farm labouring community. As farm workers received low wages and their families were large, parents encouraged their children to work.&lt;P&gt;P DX368 PH2/9/53</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV><DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>1. &lt;B&gt;Family harvest time, Late nineteenth century&lt;/B&gt;&lt;P&gt;The photograph shows a pleasant scene from a farming community, where the task of collecting the corn was treated as a major event with many families involved. The employment of children in agriculture in the nineteenth century was intrinsically bound up with the labour intensive practises of cultivation, and in direct conflict to the growing importance of education as part of a child's development. Despite both changes in the law governing school attendance and the accompanying restrictions on the use of child labour in the last part of the nineteenth century quite a significant number of children were employed in agriculture. The majority of children who worked in the countryside in the nineteenth century came from the poorer farm labouring community. As farm workers received low wages and their families were large, parents encouraged their children to work. The National Agricultural Labourers' Union was against the employment of children in agriculture. Joseph Arch, the Union President, made clear the general attitude when he told the Trade Union Congress in January, 1873, that 'child labour meant neither more nor less than the perpetuation of pauperism, crime, ignorance, immorality, and every evil?'.&lt;P&gt;P DX368 PH2/9/53</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>

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RHC copy neg. NMC 35/25121