Book contents
- Childhood in Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Childhood in Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Childhood in Villages, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 1 Conceptions of Childhood in Rural Society
- 2 Growing Up in Villages
- 3 Work, Education and Religion for Children in the Countryside
- Part II Childhood in Towns, c. 1700–1870
- Part III Childhood in an Industrial and Urban Society, c. 1870–2000
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
3 - Work, Education and Religion for Children in the Countryside
from Part I - Childhood in Villages, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2018
Book contents
- Childhood in Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Childhood in Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Childhood in Villages, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 1 Conceptions of Childhood in Rural Society
- 2 Growing Up in Villages
- 3 Work, Education and Religion for Children in the Countryside
- Part II Childhood in Towns, c. 1700–1870
- Part III Childhood in an Industrial and Urban Society, c. 1870–2000
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 considers children's work and efforts to 'civilise' the peasantry via the schools and the churches. It begins with the various tasks customarily given to children on the farms, and the advantages and disadvantages associated with them. In particular it singles out the campaigns against employing children in agricultural gangs in various parts of Europe. It also has a section devoted to proto-industrialisation and its impact on children. It then turns to education and religion in villages. It mentions the efforts by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation to improve religious observance, and the long struggle to impose elementary schooling. It ends with an assessment of these reform movements in the different parts of Europe, based on literacy rates, the often bruising experience of schooling and the unorthodox nature of popular religion in the villages.
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- Childhood in Modern Europe , pp. 55 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018