child labor

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in 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.

A biography of the labor leader who grew up in Ireland, emigrated to the United States, lost her family to yellow fever, and helped the mistreated working class, from coal miners to child mill workers, achieve better working conditions in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Explores the issues surrounding child labor worldwide and offers solutions and a plea for more research to be done.

Reveals the twenty-first century equivalent to slave trading, describing the experiences of the women and children around the world who are sold as slaves and discusses what can be done to stop the practice.

Photographs and text document working children especially in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Mexico. Includes a chapter on Iqbal Masih, the child labor activist from Pakistan.

Explores the ways children and youth spent their time at various points in history, describing play, child labor, and slavery.

This book describes the hiring of children to work in factories in the 1800s Industrial Revolution. The reader's choices reveal the perspectives of a boy working in a cotton mill in England, a girl working in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and a "newsie" selling newspapers in New York City.

Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.

Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.