The very serious business of child's play

By Karen Buck 2003-08-15T00:00:00

Anyone moved to pity by the plight of 19th-century mill-workers, slaving for 16 hours a day to survive during that first cruel stage of industrialisation, has never had responsibility for children during the summer holidays. The dark, satanic mills have never looked so alluring.

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