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Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementIntroduction: Child Labour - A Thing of the Past? Michael LavalettePart 1 The Theoretical Context of Child Labour ResearchEditors Introduction1. The 'New Sociology of Childhood' and Child Labour: Childhood, Children's Rights and 'Children's Voice' M.Lavalette2. Theorizing Children at Work: Family, State and Relations of Production in Historical Context M.LavalettePart 2 Child Labour in British HistoryEditors Introduction3. Child Labour and British Industrialization Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries4. The Historic Viability of Child LAbour and the Mines Act of 1842 Peter Kirby5. The Changing Form of Child LAbour circa 1880-1918: The Growth of 'Out of School Work' M.Lavalette6. The Problem that Doesn't Exist? Child Labour in Britain 1918-1970 Stephen CunninghamPart 3 Contemporary IssuesEditors Introduction7. Child Work in the UK 1970-1998 Madeleine Leonard8. A Peculiarly British Phenomenon? Child Labour in the USA Jim McKechnie9. Honoured in the Breach: Child Employment Law in Britain David Cornwell, Katya Graham and Sandy Hobbs10. Unenforced or Unenforacble? A View from the Professions Ben WhitneyConclusion M. LavaletteBibliographyIndex