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Professor Jane Humphries is the Centennial Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of labour markets, industrialization, and their links to family economies. She has published extensively on gender, family history, and women's work, exploring the causes and consequences of economic growth and structural change. Her book, 'Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution', published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, uses numerous autobiographies of working men and employs innovative methodologies to illuminate aspects of children's lives that would otherwise remain inaccessible through conventional sources. This book received the Gyorgi Ranki Prize for outstanding work in European Economic History from the Economic History Association in 2011 and served as the basis for a BBC4 documentary titled 'Children Built Victorian Britain', which Professor Humphries co-authored and presented.
Department of Economics