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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Child Labor Bulletin
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South
Author: Shelley Sallee
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the complex motivations behind the "whites-only" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labor and fewer regulations found the South's doors wide open. Children then comprised over 22 percent of the southern textile labor force, compared to 6 percent in New England. Shelley Sallee explains how northern and southern Progressives, who formed a transregional alliance to nudge the South toward minimal child welfare standards, had to mold their strategies around the racial and societal preoccupations of a crucial ally--white middle-class southerners. Southern whites of the "better sort" often regarded white mill workers as something of a race unto themselves--degenerate and just above blacks in station. To enlist white middle-class support, says Sallee, reformers had to address concerns about social chaos fueled by northern interference, the empowerment of "white trash," or the alliance of poor whites and blacks. The answer was to couch reform in terms of white racial uplift--and to persuade the white middle class that to demean white children through factory work was to undermine "whiteness" generally. The lingering effect of this "whites-only" strategy was to reinforce the idea of whiteness as essential to American identity and the politics of reform. Sallee's work is a compelling contribution to, and the only book-length treatment of, the study of child labor reform, racism, and political compromise in the Progressive-era South.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the complex motivations behind the "whites-only" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labor and fewer regulations found the South's doors wide open. Children then comprised over 22 percent of the southern textile labor force, compared to 6 percent in New England. Shelley Sallee explains how northern and southern Progressives, who formed a transregional alliance to nudge the South toward minimal child welfare standards, had to mold their strategies around the racial and societal preoccupations of a crucial ally--white middle-class southerners. Southern whites of the "better sort" often regarded white mill workers as something of a race unto themselves--degenerate and just above blacks in station. To enlist white middle-class support, says Sallee, reformers had to address concerns about social chaos fueled by northern interference, the empowerment of "white trash," or the alliance of poor whites and blacks. The answer was to couch reform in terms of white racial uplift--and to persuade the white middle class that to demean white children through factory work was to undermine "whiteness" generally. The lingering effect of this "whites-only" strategy was to reinforce the idea of whiteness as essential to American identity and the politics of reform. Sallee's work is a compelling contribution to, and the only book-length treatment of, the study of child labor reform, racism, and political compromise in the Progressive-era South.
Kids at Work
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395797266
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395797266
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Kids on Strike!
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395888926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book 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.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395888926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book 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.
A Right to Childhood
Author: Kriste Lindenmeyer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy makers everywhere.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy makers everywhere.
Child Labor in New Jersey
Author: Nettie Pauline McGill
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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The American Child
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Author: James Marten
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479894141
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children’s history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479894141
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation’s top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. Children and Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era explores both nineteenth century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. Edited by renowned scholar of children’s history James Marten, the collection of eleven essays offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the essays in this volume foreground the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.
The Solution of the Child Labor Problem
Author: Scott Nearing
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Belles of New England
Author: William Moran
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429978252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights. William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling when dealing with rags and when dealing with riches. In part a microcosm of America's social development during the period, The Belles of New England casts a new and finer light on this rich tapestry of vast wealth, greed, discrimination, and courage.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429978252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights. William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling when dealing with rags and when dealing with riches. In part a microcosm of America's social development during the period, The Belles of New England casts a new and finer light on this rich tapestry of vast wealth, greed, discrimination, and courage.