child labor

Presents the fictitious story of twelve-year-old Emily who works in garment factory to describe the practice of child labor in the early 1900s. Includes historical accounts and photographs of children in difficult and dangerous factory conditions.

When Clara discovers a note and a photograph inside a purse at the mall, she can't stop thinking about the young girl - Yuming_ who wrote the desperate message. Yuming claims that she was kidnapped and is now being forced to work in a factory outside of Beijing. Clara lives in Illinois, but has visited China; her sister Lola was adopted from there. Could it be that Clara was meant to find this note?.

"Until the close of the 19th century, many children in America were employed in farming, mills and mines or sold newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court)"--Provided by publisher.

Fifteen-year-old Amadou and his beloved little brother Seydou left home to find work, but they did not expect to become forced laborers on an Ivory Coast cacao plantation. Day by day they gather cacao pods, hoping to earn enough money to buy their freedom, but their resolve is waning. Then one day Khadija arrives, the first girl they have seen in the camp, a wild girl whose attempts to escape rekindle Amadou's own fire for freedom.

A biography of Craig Kielburger, co-founder of the worldwide Me to We and Free the Children organizations and a champion for children's rights.

Renata and her friends learn about children around the world who do not have time to play because they have to work and try to come up with a solution to the problem.

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

Provides information about working conditions in the United States in the early 1800s through the story of Molly Castle, a twelve-year-old girl who takes a job in the home of a Chicago suffragette after the deaths of her parents.

A readers' theater script for six cast members that describes the working conditions of children in mills in the early 20th century.