Child labor : an American history /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hindman, Hugh D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2002.
Series:Issues in work and human resources.
Subjects:
Child labor > United States > History.
Child labor.
Enfants > Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Enfants > Travail.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Child labor
Kinderarbeit
Geschichte
Kinderarbeid.
Kinderarbeit > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Kinderarbeit > Geschichte > USA.
United States
USA
USA > Kinderarbeit > Geschichte.
Electronic book.
History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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