Child labor : an American history /
Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern times. This book considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an his...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2002.
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Colección: | Issues in work and human resources.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : child labor as a social and economic problem
- Industrialization of child labor
- Child labor reform : the change after the change
- Children in the coal mines
- Light manufacturing : children in the glasshouses
- Cotton textiles : Herod of industries
- Tenement homework : birthplace of the sweatshop
- Street trades
- Agriculture and food processing
- America and child labor today
- Global child labor : past as prologue.