Download or read book Selected Articles on Child Labor written by Edna Dean Bullock and published by Minneapolis : H.W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1911 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upon the Altar of Work written by Betsy Wood and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state. Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.
Download or read book Child Labor in America written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.
Download or read book Child Labor in America written by John A. Fliter and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century—and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal struggle. The book offers the first full account of child labor law in America—from the earliest state regulations to the most recent important Supreme Court decisions and the latest contemporary attacks on existing laws. Children had worked in America from the time the first settlers arrived on its shores, but public attitudes about working children underwent dramatic changes along with the nation’s economy and culture. A close look at the origins of oppressive child labor clarifies these changing attitudes, providing context for the hard-won legal reforms that followed. Author John A. Fliter describes early attempts to regulate working children, beginning with haphazard and flawed state-level efforts in the 1840s and continuing in limited and ineffective ways as a consensus about the evils of child labor started to build. In the Progressive Era, the issue finally became a matter of national concern, resulting in several laws, four major Supreme Court decisions, an unsuccessful Child Labor Amendment, and the landmark Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Fliter offers a detailed overview of these events, introducing key figures, interest groups, and government officials on both sides of the debates and incorporating the latest legal and political science research on child labor reform. Unprecedented in its scope and depth, his work provides critical insight into the role child labor has played in the nation’s social, political, and legal development.
Download or read book The Federal Government And Child Labor written by Owen Reed Lovejoy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compelling argument for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill, written by the National Child Labor Committee. It exposes the horrors of child labor in the United States and advocates for federal intervention to protect young workers. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of child labor and the fight for children's rights. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Selected Articles on Child Labor written by Edna Dean Bullock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Articles on Child Labor This handbook is designed especially for the student and citizen rather than for the debater. It is published in response to requests for a compilation that would give in some compact form some reliable information on the various phases of the child labor problem. No one overshadowing topic for debate has been selected. The subject is replete with topics that are under daily discussion among people who are interested in social welfare. According to Owen R.Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, the unsolved problems connected with child labor resolve themselves into: - 1. What classes of children should be entirely eliminated as a factor in the industrial problem? 2. From what industries should all children be eliminated? 3. What regulations should govern the conditions of the children who may wisely be employed? 4. What is to be done with those excluded from industry? These propositions fairly cover the field of discussion. Among the questions that they bring up are these: - 1. Should vacation permits be issued? 2. Should home labor for gain be permitted? 3. Is the age limit of 14 years sufficient protection for children? 4. Should industrial and vocational education be made a dominant feature of public school instruction? A practical form of discussion is that which undertakes to decide whether a particular state has the best possible child labor law. The literature of this subject is voluminous and is being augumented rapidly. Much that is useful has been of necessity excluded. The bibliography is also carefully selected with a view to the inclusion of more recent material. It is arranged in a roughly classified order which is also followed in the arrangement of the reprints. It is believed that this volume will give the general inquirer sufficient up-to-date material to meet the requirements of the average discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Intercollegiate Debates written by Paul Martin Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Have Children written by Christine Overall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how. In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children is not just a prudential or pragmatic decision but one with ethical repercussions, Overall offers a wide-ranging exploration of how we might think systematically and deeply about this fundamental aspect of human life. Writing from a feminist perspective, she also acknowledges the inevitably gendered nature of the decision; the choice has different meanings, implications, and risks for women than it has for men. After considering a series of ethical approaches to procreation, and finding them inadequate or incomplete, Overall offers instead a novel argument. Exploring the nature of the biological parent-child relationship—which is not only genetic but also psychological, physical, intellectual, and moral—she argues that the formation of that relationship is the best possible reason for choosing to have a child.
Download or read book Handbook of Constructive Child Labor Reform in Massachusetts written by Massachusetts Child Labor Committee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor and Sweatshops written by Ann Manheimer and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abuses of child and adult workers have led to protests, boycotts, and treaties to end child labor and sweatshops. Everyone agrees the worst practices must be stopped. But debate rages over the underlying causes, and whether workplace exploitation is an inevitable step in economic development or an avoidable human rights violation.
Download or read book Child Labor written by Hugh D Hindman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.
Download or read book Selected Articles on Child Labor written by Julia Emily Johnsen and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can We Afford Child Labor written by Charles Edward Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of International Law in the Elimination of Child Labor written by Holly Cullen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a contribution to the debates on child labor, this book presents child labor as a problem to which various branches of international law have made a response. It treats a range of international law sub-disciplines, and analyses child labor in the context of social, economic and cultural issues.
Download or read book Child Labor and the Republic written by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bitter Cry of the Children 1906 written by John Spargo and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
