Child Labor in America

by Mofford, Juliet H.; Hine, Lewis

• ISBN13: 9781878668981
• ISBN10: 1878668986
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: History Compass

Summary

Children have always worked to help their families, on farms and in the home. With the growth of factory labor and increasing numbers of immigrants arriving in the U.S., children began working more and more. Accounts from children and their bosses, the development of new labor laws, and the efforts of labor reformers tell the story of child labor from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the reform era.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
Juliet H. Mofford
The Fair Labor Standards Act	13	(1)
Indentured Servants and Apprentices	14	(2)
"Report on Manufacturers," 1791	16	(1)
Textile Tots	17	(6)
"The Shadow Child"	18	(3)
"Bell Ballard" Goes to Work in a Cotton Mill	21	(2)
Breaker Boys in the Coal Mines	23	(2)
"Shut in from everything that is pleasant..."	23	(2)
Children Work the City Streets	25	(4)
The Littlest Hustlers	25	(1)
The Newsies	26	(1)
Rags to Riches: The Bootstrap Myth	27	(1)
The Padrone System	28	(1)
Children in the Sweatshops	29	(2)
Jacob Riis	29	(2)
The Child-Savers	31	(12)
Jane Addams of Hull-House	31	(3)
..."if they are old enough to stand"	34	(1)
"Turn all working children into school children"	35	(2)
Crusader With A Camera: Lewis Wickes Hine	37	(2)
Mother Jones: "The Most Dangerous Woman in America"	39	(1)
The Children's Crusade	39	(2)
Mother Jones Writes President "Teddy" Roosevelt	41	(2)
Different Points of View	43	(3)
Samuel Gompers on Child Labor	45	(1)
Kids on Strike	46	(7)
Strike of the Newsies	47	(1)
Camella Teoli's Testimony	48	(4)
Junior Unions	52	(1)
Child Laborers of Stage and Screen	53	(4)
"An Act to Keep Children Off the Stage"	53	(1)
Kids At Work In Hollywood	54	(1)
The Coogan Act or Child Actor's Bill	55	(2)
The Long Struggle for Legal Reform	57	(6)
The Beveridge Bill	57	(1)
The Keating-Owen Act	58	(2)
Constitutional Amendment Proposed and Opposed	60	(1)
"Stoop Labor"	61	(2)
Suggestions For Further Reading	63	(1)
About the Editor	64