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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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Preface 1
Introduction 3
1. Cotton and Cotton Mills 9
2. Apprenticeship System 31
3. Florence Kelley 45
4. Settlement Houses—Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop and Lillian Wald 58
5. Reformers and Muckrakers 66
6. Tenements 79
7. In the Mines 90
8. On the Farm 100
9. Distributing the News 110
10. City Work 121
11. At Sea 135
12. Bottles, Silk, Meat and Shoes 145
13. Children at War 153
14. Health and Education of Working Children 160
15. National Child Labor Committee and the U.S. Children's Bureau 169
16. Lewis Wickes Hine, Photographer Extraordinaire 179
17. The Legal Battle 182
18. Frances Perkins and the New Deal 195
19. Child Labor Today 204
Chapter Notes 211
Bibliography 219
Index 223
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