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Excerpt from Selected Articles on Child Labor This handbook is designed especially for the student and citizen rather than for the debater. It is published in response to requests for a compilation that would give in some compact form some reliable information on the various phases of the child labor problem. No one overshadowing topic for debate has been selected. The subject is replete with topics that are under daily discussion among people who are interested in social welfare. According to Owen R.Lovejoy, Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, the unsolved problems connected with child labor resolve themselves into: - 1. What classes of children should be entirely eliminated as a factor in the industrial problem? 2. From what industries should all children be eliminated? 3. What regulations should govern the conditions of the children who may wisely be employed? 4. What is to be done with those excluded from industry? These propositions fairly cover the field of discussion. Among the questions that they bring up are these: - 1. Should vacation permits be issued? 2. Should home labor for gain be permitted? 3. Is the age limit of 14 years sufficient protection for children? 4. Should industrial and vocational education be made a dominant feature of public school instruction? A practical form of discussion is that which undertakes to decide whether a particular state has the best possible child labor law. The literature of this subject is voluminous and is being augumented rapidly. Much that is useful has been of necessity excluded. The bibliography is also carefully selected with a view to the inclusion of more recent material. It is arranged in a roughly classified order which is also followed in the arrangement of the reprints. It is believed that this volume will give the general inquirer sufficient up-to-date material to meet the requirements of the average discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.