Notes

This book 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 the children throughout Britain’s history whose work fed the nation, kept trains running and put clothes on everyone’s backs. The author 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.