Hindman, Hugh D.

Child labor : an American history / Hugh D. Hindman. - Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2002. - xi, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Issues in work and human resources .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399) and index.

Part I. The Child Labor Problem : 1. Introduction: Child Labor as a Social and Economic Problem -- 2. Industrialization of Child Labor -- 3. Child Labor Reform: The Change After the Change. Part II. Child Labor in America : 4. Children in the Coal Mines -- 5. Light Manufacturing: Children in the Glasshouses -- 6. Cotton Textiles: Herod of Industries -- 7. Tenement Homework: Birthplace of the Sweatshop -- 8. The Street Trades -- 9. Agriculture and Food Processing. Part III. Child Labor's Legacy : 10. America and Child Labor Today -- 11. Global Child Labor: Past as Prologue.

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Child labor--History--United States.
Child labor.

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