Download or read book Child Labor in Greater Boston 18801920 written by Ann Piper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods, or scavenging. On reaching 14 years of age, many children left school to find full-time work. Fearing that these children would end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, Boston Public Schools added trade schools to teach craft skills--carpentry, printing, and metalwork for boys; dressmaking, cooking, and embroidery for girls. The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th century and ended with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before permitting them to start work. The bulk of the images included were taken by Lewis Wickes Hine during his several visits to Boston between 1909 and 1917.
Download or read book Overworked and Underpaid written by Sarah Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Working Children of Boston written by Helen Laura Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor and Industrialization written by Scott LeVee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Employing Industries written by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Toilers of Boston Streets written by Emma Elizabeth Brown 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: Published in 1913, this groundbreaking work exposes the horrific conditions faced by child laborers in the factories and streets of Boston. Through firsthand accounts and photographs, Brown sheds light on the physical and emotional toll of this widespread but often invisible form of exploitation. 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 Child Labor in the United States and Its Great Attendant Evils written by Felix Adler and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor in Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. Child Labor Committee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Working Children of Boston A Study of Child Labor Etc written by Helen Sumner WOODBURY and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seeing the American Woman 1880 1920 written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly evolving age left behind the "cult of domesticity" that reigned in the nineteenth century to give rise to new "types" of women based on a single feature--a type of hair, skin, dress, or prop--including the Gibson Girl, the sob sister, the stunt girl, the hoochy-coochy dancer, and the bearded lady. Exploring both high and low culture, from the circus and film to newspapers and magazines, this work examines depictions of women at the dawn of "mass media," depictions that would remain influential throughout the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Body in the Anglosphere 1880 1920 written by Robert W. Thurston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the body in every chapter, this book examines the changing meanings and profound significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920. They formed an imaginary—but, in many ways, quite real—community that ruled much of the world. Among them, racism became more virulent. To probe the importance of the body, this book brings together for the first time the many areas in which the physical form was newly or more extensively featured, from photography through literature, frontier wars, violent sports, and the global circus. Sex, sexuality, concepts of gender including women’s possibilities in all areas of life, and the meanings of race and of civilization figured regularly in Anglo discussions. Black people challenged racism by presenting their own photos of respectable folk. As all this unfolded, Anglo men and women faced the problem of maintaining civilized control vs. the need to express uninhibited feeling. With these issues in mind, it is evident that the origins of today’s debates about race and gender lie in the late nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Working Children of Boston a Study of Child Labor Under a Modern System of Legal Regulation written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... a study of the employment of children under 16 years of age in Boston including the amount, character, conditions, and effect of employment; gives sex, nativity, birthplace, years in the US, father's nativity and nationality, age at going to work; includes statistics and discussion on employed children, their families, termination of school life, work before leaving school, industrial histories, occupations, sickness and accidents, enforcement of the child labor law, and more ...
Download or read book Child Labor and the Republic written by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamphlets from the vertical file.
Download or read book The Child Labor Law written by Massachusetts Child Labor Committee and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Labor written by Hugh D. Hindman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
