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The Worst Children's Jobs in History

The Worst Children's Jobs in History

Sir Tony Robinson

Takes you back to the days when being a kid was no excuse for getting out of hard labour. This book tells the stories of children whose work fed the nation, kept trains running, and put clothes on everyone's backs, over the hundreds of years of Britain's history.
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"The Worst Jobs in History" takes you back to the days when being a kid was no excuse for getting out of hard labour. This book tells the stories of all the children whose work fed the nation, kept trains running, and put clothes on everyone's backs, over the last few hundred years of Britain's history. No longer will you have to listen to your parents, grandparents, uncles, neighbours, and random old people in the Co-op telling you how much harder they had it in their young day. Next time you find yourself in that situation, ask them if they were a jigger-turner or a turnip-picker in their young day. No? An orderly boy, perhaps! A stepper! Maybe they spent their weekends making matchboxes! Still no? Then they have no idea about the real meaning of hard work. Tony Robinson takes you on a guided tour through all the lousiest places for a kid to work. With profiles and testimonies of real kids in rotten jobs, this book will tell you things you probably didn't want to know about the back-breaking, puke-inducing bits of being a child in the past.

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Title - The Worst Children's Jobs in History

Edition -

Author - Sir Tony Robinson

ISBN 13 - 9781405055192

Imprint - Macmillan Children's Books

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 02/09/2005

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 189 x 246 x 12mm

Weight - 499 g

Languages - English