child labor

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.

A provocative look at the brutal life of a young Indian boy who is forced to work in a sweatshop in Mumbai.

Examine important aspects of various topics of global significance in these anthologies of essays. Includes black-and-white photographs, sidebars, table of contents and world map. Chapter Books: 4 chapters.

A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.

Includes legal to copy documents for classroom use.

Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.

This book describes the harsh conditions that child laborers endured from the 1700s to the 1900s and discusses the problems in getting legislation that established child labor restrictions.

Profiles the life and work of Lewis Hine, best known for his series of photographs showing Americans at work from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression, including young children who worked long hours in order to help their struggling families.

Chronicles the history of child labor from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century.