Child labor : an American history / Hugh D. Hindman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hindman, Hugh D.

Series:

Issues in work and human resources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child labor--United States--History.

Child labor.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2002]

Summary:

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 historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops, in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.

Contents:

Part I The Child Labor Problem

1 Child Labor As a Social and Economic Problem

2 Industrialization of Child Labor

3 Child Labor Reform

Part II Child Labor in America

4 Children in the Coal Mines

5 Light Manufacturing: Children in the Glass-Houses

6 Cotton Textiles: The Herod of Industries

7 The Sweatshops and Industrial Homework

8 The Street Trades

9 Children in Agriculture and Food Processing

Part III Child Labor's Legacy

10 Past As Prologue

11 Global Child Labor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-399) and index.

ISBN:

0765609355

OCLC:

49611062