employment

When Mama Bear decides to turn her hobby into a business, each member of the Bear family tries to help a little more around the house.

Jennifer thinks she prefers life in Laura's home to her own until changing circumstances help her to understand her own mother better.

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

Offers advice to prospective baby-sitters on how to find and keep jobs, sharing ideas for gaining experience, getting hired, making a good impression, getting paid, and expanding the business.

A child points out the good and the bad things about a mother's job that takes her from home a lot.

A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.