Child Labor in City Streets
Child Labor in City Streets

Author: Edward Nicholas Clopper

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13:

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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.

In the Watches of the Night
In the Watches of the Night

Author: Peter C. Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0226036022

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Before skyscrapers and streetlights, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, new technologies began to light up the city. This text depicts the changing experiences of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors in the nocturnal city.

Pricing the Priceless Child
Pricing the Priceless Child

Author: Viviana A. Zelizer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-08-28

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780691034591

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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.