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Child Labor Reform, 1907-1935

Includes visceral accounts of the working children's lives, as well as the lives of their mothers: "During the years when the mothers are bearing children they spend weeks at hard manual labor, working in some instances up to the very day of confinement. Some of them laughed at the question as to whether they quit work during pregnancy. One mother remarked that 'Annie was almost born in the beet field,' and another, 'topped until 6 a.m., and Lucy was born at 7 a.m.'"

United States: U.S. Department of Labor and National Child Labor Committee, 1907-1935. A grouping of twenty-two (22) items related to child welfare laws, revealing the sobering extent of the social crisis in the United States between 1907 and 1935. All issued by the U.S. Department of Labor or National Child Labor Committee. The items include the following sub-topics: revision and administration of child welfare laws; overall social progress; employment certificate systems; child labor and the work of mothers on Norfolk "truck farms" and beet fields; children in agriculture; in industrial home work; in cotton growing in Texas; in coal mining; on Illinois farms; on tobacco farms; in North Dakota; in newspaper selling; in Milwaukee; in street work; in canneries; on Maryland "truck farms"; in Boston; and in metal manufacturing industries. The items are, in order of publication date:

"Child Labor and the Republic". New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1907.

"Child Labor and Social Progress". New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1908.

"State Commissions for the Study and Revision of Child-Welfare Laws". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1920.

"The Employment-Certificate System: A Safeguard for the Working Child". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1921.

"Child Labor and the Welfare of Children in an Anthracite Coal-Mining District". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1922.

"Industrial Home Work of Children". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1922.

Woodbury, Helen Sumner. "The Working Children of Boston". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1922.

"Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1923.

"Child Labor in North Dakota". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1923.

"Minor in Automobile and Metal-Manufacturing Industries in Michigan". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1923.

Channing, Alice. "Child Labor on Maryland Truck Farms". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1923.

"Child Labor and the Work of Mothers on Norfolk Truck Farms". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1924.

"The Welfare of Children in Cotton-Growing Areas of Texas". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1924.

Woodbury, Helen Sumner. "Administration of Child Labor Laws. Part 5". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1924.

Byrne, Harriet A. "Child Labor in representative Tobacco-Growing Areas". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1926.

Williams, Dorothy, and Mary E. Skinner. "Work of Children on Illinois Farms". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1926.

McGill, Nettie. "Children in Street Work". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1928.

McGill, Nettie. "Children in Agriculture". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1929.

"Child Labor Facts and Figures". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1930.

Matthews, Ellen Nathalie. "Children in Fruit and Vegetable Canneries". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1930.

Channing, Alice. "Employed Boys and Girls in Milwaukee". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1932.

"Children Engaged in Newspaper and Magazine Selling and Delivering". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1935. Good to very good. Minor flaws including toning, dust soiling, short tears and nicks.

Price: $2,800.00

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