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Author Hindman, Hugh D.

Title Child labor : an American history / Hugh D. Hindman.

Publication Info. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2002]
©2002

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  331.31 H586    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  331.31 HIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  331.31 H58    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  331.31 HINDMAN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  331.31 HI    Check Shelf
Description xi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Issues in work and human resources
Issues in work and human resources.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-399) and index.
Contents Introduction : child labor as a social and economic problem -- Industrialization of child labor -- Child labor reform : the change after the change -- Children in the coal mines -- Light manufacturing : children in the glasshouses -- Cotton textiles : Herod of industries -- Tenement homework : birthplace of the sweatshop -- Street trades -- Agriculture and food processing -- America and child labor today -- Global child labor : past as prologue.
Subject Child labor -- History -- United States.
Child labor.
ISBN 0765609363 paperback $29.95
0765609355
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