Mary Thorpe's account of child labour in the cottage economy, 1862 | Workers' Rights

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Mary Thorpe's account was given to the Children's Employment Commission in 1862. It highlights that the pre-industrial cottage economy could be as harsh for children as the cotton mills that would come to supplant it.

Performed by Helen Kavanagh.

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