446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an... Read more
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. America and Child Labor Today; 11. Global Child Labor: Past as Prologue
Biography
Hindman, Hugh D
