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Title: Evening Schools and Child Labor in the United States, 1870-1910

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Economists and historians have made considerable progress in understanding the expansion of public common schooling in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century and the impact of legislation regarding child labor and compulsory school attendance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the quantitative literature has neither documented nor analyzed a coincident feature of the educational movement - widespread efforts to enable children to combine work and schooling. Non-traditional forms of education - including evening schools and employer-operated schools, as well as part-time, half-time, and continuation schools - emerged in response to the new industrial environment to facilitate the education of working childre

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40836700.pdf

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Authors: Carter, Linda K

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Economic History

Issue: 2

Volume: 70

Pages: 458-462

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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