{"product_id":"extra-extra-autumn-lorimer-linford-9781496237552","title":"Extra! Extra!: A History of America's Girl Newsies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican pop culture loves newsies. The children who bawled out headlines and sold newspapers on city streets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been depicted countless times in movies, Broadway shows, books, music, and more, but somehow it's only ever the stories of newsboys that are told. Scholarly literature too has focused mostly on boy newsies. Yet for nearly as long as there were newspapers in the United States, there were also newsgirls. Girl newsies were photographed, interviewed, studied, argued over, and eventually absorbed into the collective \"newsboys\" and forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtra! Extra! A Histor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ey of America's Girl Newsies\u003c\/i\u003e offers a corrective, demonstrating the importance of newsgirls as early news workers and as symbols of child labor and gender reform efforts. Sometimes younger than ten years old and from impoverished families, girl newsies were already vulnerable to exploitation from the newspaper publishing industry, which relied heavily on child labor during the \"golden age\" of journalism. However, the newsgirls of this period contributed much to news labor, and they were important to the discussions concerning childhood, child labor reform, and women's changing societal roles. Properly integrating newsgirls into the history of newsies dismantles archetypes and enables a deeper understanding of child news labor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn Lorimer Linford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496237552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496237552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Autumn Lorimer Linford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997143019775,"sku":"9781496237552","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/extra-extra-autumn-lorimer-linford-9781496237552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}