Children and “the right to factory work”:

Rahikainen, Marjatta

doi:10.1080/03585522.2001.10419840

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“…Indeed, in the deliberations on industrial child labour in the Finnish Landtdag (Estates Assembly) in the 1860s to 1880s, as previously in the Swedish Riksdag in 1856, there was a clear interest in setting the children of the poor to work, since it was reasoned that this would keep them from falling into poverty. 56 Sure enough both forms of child labour had their early-modern predecessors -nineteenth-century industrial child labour being a legacy of child labour in early manufactories and workhouses for children. In this perspective industrial child labour seems to appear as an example of exploitation of children handed down by the pre-industrial society.…”

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Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920

Rahikainen

2002

Rural History

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This article challenges the interpretations by Viviana Zelizer and Clark Nardinelli of bound labour by farmed-out parish pauper children. Using the case of Finland, supported by the example of Sweden, it is argued that the exploitation of parish pauper children may have increased in the nineteenth century due to increasing adoption of a monetary economy in the countryside. As the productivity of a growing child fell short of his or her consumption, while the poor relief authorities strove to keep the compensation for this as low as possible, peasant farmers solved the discrepancy by over-exploiting farmed-out children. In both countries a system of auctioning-out paupers was applied, with no principal difference made between children and adults. The Finnish and Swedish cases suggest that industrial child labour and bound labour by parish pauper children many have reflected a similar attitude to the children of both the poor and the labouring classes.

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Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920

Rahikainen

2002

Rural History

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Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

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Meissner

2010

J. Econ. Hist.

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The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage the diffusion of labor regulation. The type of trade mattered as much as the volume. In the European core, states emulated the labor regulation of partners because intra-industry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products and pressures to imitate were weak.

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First-generation factory children: Child labour in textile manufacturing in nineteenth-century Finland

Rahikainen¹

2002

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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Children and “the right to factory work”:

Abstract: The early nineteenth-century factory laws are usually seen as the first steps towards

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920

Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920

Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

First-generation factory children: Child labour in textile manufacturing in nineteenth-century Finland

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