Author: Ann Piper
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467121061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods, or scavenging. On reaching 14 years of age, many children left school to find full-time work. Fearing that these children would end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, Boston Public Schools added trade schools to teach craft skills--carpentry, printing, and metalwork for boys; dressmaking, cooking, and embroidery for girls. The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th century and ended with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before permitting them to start work. The bulk of the images included were taken by Lewis Wickes Hine during his several visits to Boston between 1909 and 1917.
Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439644829
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods, or scavenging. On reaching 14 years of age, many children left school to find full-time work. Fearing that these children would end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, Boston Public Schools added trade schools to teach craft skills—carpentry, printing, and metalwork for boys; dressmaking, cooking, and embroidery for girls. The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th century and ended with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before permitting them to start work. The bulk of the images included were taken by Lewis Wickes Hine during his several visits to Boston between 1909 and 1917.
Author: Raymond Garfield Fuller
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Helen Laura Sumner
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Author: National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: Massachusetts Child Labor Committee
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Felix Adler
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: United States. Children's Bureau
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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... a study of the employment of children under 16 years of age in Boston including the amount, character, conditions, and effect of employment; gives sex, nativity, birthplace, years in the US, father's nativity and nationality, age at going to work; includes statistics and discussion on employed children, their families, termination of school life, work before leaving school, industrial histories, occupations, sickness and accidents, enforcement of the child labor law, and more ...
Author: Social Research Council of Boston
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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