- Title
- Children and youth of the Empire: tales of transgression and accommodation
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian; Emeljanow, Victor
- Relation
- Entertaining Children: the Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry p. 51-71
- Relation
- Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137305466
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Our focus is upon the interplay between the political pressures brought about by well-meaning social commentators, the realpolitik that inflected the positions of managers and parents alike, and popular performances by children that channelled some of the social and political anxieties during the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods until World War 1. We take as our point of departure the legal and political positions towards the employment of children in Britain and Australasia in the period 1900-1910 but then broaden the canvas to include those companies which employed children during their tours of India, Ceylon, the Dutch East Indies and South Africa. In so doing, the chapter examines the transmission of cultural popularities concerning children between the imperial centre and its periphery, despite the legislative measures that sought to monitor the travel of children between countries.
- Subject
- perfoming arts; children; child labour; entertainers; media; theatre history; British Empire
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064692
- Identifier
- uon:17625
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781137305459
- Language
- eng
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