Child Labor: An American History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765609366)

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.

Author: Hugh D. Hindman
ISBN-10: 0765609363
ISBN-13: 9780765609366
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2002
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.98w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2002 pg. 31
Library Journal 09/15/2002 pg. 81