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Title: Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880 - 1920
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2004
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Abstract: The icon of the exploited child is as much a product of the industrial age as the steam engine. Both the protest against child labor and the scholarship that studies it have intently fixed upon the miseries of children in factories. Although curiously silent about children on the farm, both reformers and scholars question economies that send the young to work in mills and mines; the villains in the story are often the same—industrial capitalism, employers who abuse child workers, and the poverty or greed that urges some parents to compel sons and daughters to work. Beyond these factors lies another, more nettlesome yet. Did certain ethnic groups’ cultures sanction the exploitation of children?
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Authors: Gratton, Brian; Moen, Jon
Periodical (Full): Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Pages: 355-391
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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