Table of Contents

Part 1 The story of child labour. Part 2 The search for order 1680-1810; order and idleness; work; schooling; order as a spectacle. Part 3 The response to child labour 1780-1850: the climbing boys; factory children; slaves; the order of nature. Part 4 Savages: noble savages and children of nature; the children of the street; recapitulation. Part 5 Waifs and strays: rescue work; the prevention of cruelty to children; cities; the worship of childhood. Part 6 Child labour under capitalism: a question of administration; the representation of child labour. Part 7 The child and the state: the categorization of the poor and the science of childhood; the nation's children. Part 8 From story to history: the story consolidated; history.