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1) Mill child
Author
Publisher
Crowell-Collier Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Description
Traces the history of child labor in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Author
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Children
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Discusses what life was like for the boys who worked in America's coal mines in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and shares the story of a young coal miner who endeavors to save miners trapped in a collapsed tunnel.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools, and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla, and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. Follow these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas' onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields...
13) Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The spacesuit: When Ellie, an ordinary woman, is asked to lead a team of seamstresses to design the very first spacesuit, no one believes they can win, but they're determined to try!
Anna Strong: The biography of Anna Strong, one of George Washington's personal spies, tells the story of a brave woman who helped change the course of American History.
Brave girl: When Clara arrived in America, she didn't know that young women had to go to work and...
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