Book Description
Child Labor in City Streets is a book by Edward N. Clopper. It examines and discusses a neglected form of child labor in 20th century America, namely newsboys, bootblacks and peddlers that were common at the time in major cities.
Author : Edward Nicholas Clopper
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Child Labor in City Streets is a book by Edward N. Clopper. It examines and discusses a neglected form of child labor in 20th century America, namely newsboys, bootblacks and peddlers that were common at the time in major cities.
Author : Edward Nicholas Clopper
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Child labor
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Author : Helen Frances Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1920
Category :
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Author : Nettie Pauline McGill
Publisher :
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Child labor
ISBN :
Author : Jo Becker
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2021
Category : COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN :
"The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. As their parents have lost jobs or income due to the pandemic and associated lockdowns, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive. Many work long, grueling hours for little or no pay, often under hazardous conditions. Some report violence, harassment, and pay theft. [This report] is based on interviews conducted from January to March 2021 with 81 children, ages 8-17, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.... The report examines the impact of the pandemic on children's rights, including their rights to education, to an adequate standard of living, and to protection from child labor, as well as government responses."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Peter C. Baldwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226036030
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city. Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395797266
A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Author : Viviana A. Zelizer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1994-08-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780691034591
This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" and emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary worth.
Author : National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Child labor
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Author : Frank Dobbin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691229279
Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight--that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles--to economic behavior. It places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-interest, and has perfect information) in context. In this way, it places a construct into a framework that more closely approximates the world in which we live. But, as an academic field, economic sociology has lost focus. The New Economic Sociology remedies this. The book comprises twenty of the most representative and widely read articles in the field's history--its classics--and organizes them according to four themes at the heart of sociology: institutions, networks, power, and cognition. Dobbin's substantial and engagingly written introduction (including his rich comparison of Yanomamo chest-beaters and Wall Street bond-traders) sets a clear framework for what follows. Gathering force throughout is Dobbin's argument that economic practices emerge through distinctly social processes, in which social networks and power resources play roles in the social construction of certain behaviors as rational or optimal. Not only does Dobbin provide a consummate introduction to the field and its history to students approaching the subject for the first time, but he also establishes a schema for interpreting the field based on an understanding of what economic sociology aims to achieve.