Kōrero: City children and youth

Laundering clothes (1 o 2)

Laundering clothes

Adolescent girls – with their hair down – wash clothes in a commercial laundry in Auckland, around 1900. Children’s wages were an important addition to working families’ budgets. Before compulsory schooling was introduced in 1877, children as young as eight were employed in factories and other workplaces. After this, workers had to be over age 12.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
Reference: M804

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Ben Schrader, 'City children and youth - Working children', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21946/laundering-clothes (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010