Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756524586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
History of American newsboys who made their living walking the streets selling newspapers.
The American Newsboy
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756524586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
History of American newsboys who made their living walking the streets selling newspapers.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756524586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
History of American newsboys who made their living walking the streets selling newspapers.
Crying the News
Author: Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199717729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199717729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Furope Viewed Through American Spectacles
Author: Charles Carroll Fulton
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Sunday Paper
Author: Paul Moore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century news publishing to chart how the Sunday paper became an essential part of American leisure. Transcending the constraints of newsprint while facing competition from other media, Sunday editions borrowed forms from and eventually partnered with magazines, film, and radio, inviting people to not only read but watch and listen. This drive for mass circulation transformed metropolitan news reading into a national pastime, a change that encouraged newspapers to bundle Sunday supplements into a panorama of popular culture that offered something for everyone.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century news publishing to chart how the Sunday paper became an essential part of American leisure. Transcending the constraints of newsprint while facing competition from other media, Sunday editions borrowed forms from and eventually partnered with magazines, film, and radio, inviting people to not only read but watch and listen. This drive for mass circulation transformed metropolitan news reading into a national pastime, a change that encouraged newspapers to bundle Sunday supplements into a panorama of popular culture that offered something for everyone.
A Pioneer Tobacco Merchant in the Orient
Author: James A. Thomas
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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American Printer and Bookmaker
Author:
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Ned Nevins, the News Boy; Or, Street Life in Boston
Author: Henry Morgan
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Newsboy
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The American Economic Review
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Includes annual List of doctoral dissertations in political economy in progress in American universities and colleges; and the Hand book of the American Economic Association.
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Includes annual List of doctoral dissertations in political economy in progress in American universities and colleges; and the Hand book of the American Economic Association.