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Author
Series
Final report volume 1966, FR-B1
Publisher
[Legislative Council Committee]
Pub. Date
1966.
Physical Desc
v, 32 leaves ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a suspicious accident occurs at Dinsmore's World-Famous Chocolates Factory in Sinclair, Kansas, Caroline Lang goes undercover as a factory worker to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event and how the factory treats its youngest employees--the child workers.
8) Coal River
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
Author
Series
The adventurers quartet volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widely known as the lord of the privateers, Royd Frobisher expects to execute the final stage of the rescue mission his brothers have begun. What he does not expect is to be pressured into taking Isobel Carmichael-- his childhood sweetheart, former handfasted bride and current business partner-- with him.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
12) Invisible hands
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary to expose child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest companies. Filmed in six countries, including India, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Ghana, it is a harrowing account of children as young as six years old making the products we use every day.
15) Kids on strike!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state. Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad...
17) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
18) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
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