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Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,
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Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however se
Child Labor in America
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At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, fact
Protecting Youth at Work
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Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the complex motivations behind the "whites-only" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in t