child labor

In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

Michael Finkel recalls how, shortly after he was fired from New York Times Magazine, he found out that a suspected murderer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List had fled to Mexico and taken on his identity. After the man, Christian Longo, was taken into custody, Michael Finkel was the only reporter that he agreed to talk to. Finkel describes his attempts to uncover the truth about really happened to the family Longo was accused of killing.

Examines the history of child labor in the United States, and attempts to identify lessons that could help eliminate the problem of child labor in countries on the path of economic development.

Though he is only twelve, Conall has worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania for a few years now, spending his time deep underground working with his mule, Angel. One day a tunnel collapses, trapping Conall, Angel, and several workers on the wrong side--but working together, Conall and Angel know they can free everyone.

UNICEF is a very important international organization. Around the world this agency's volunteers and staff are working to provide children with access to medical treatment and education.

Based on the lives of real people, the book explores the history of the child labor reform movement and how its victory affects today1 Bs working conditions and protects children's and workers rights. The reader is invited to become an child of the 1800's and given several options to choose from, allowing them the opportunity to explore what poor children forced into wage slavery experienced and see how the children's choices and the actions of others, such as reporters and activists, eventually led the end to child labor.

Discusses the history of child labor in the United States, and includes text and photographs that describe the working conditions, wages, legal rights of the young workers in the mills, factories, and mines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Tells the story of two boys, Luis and Toni, who face hard work and danger on a daily basis by working in the coal mines in Spain, and includes a photographic documentary of various mines around the world and the children who work them.

After her father's death in the 1880s, Hannah Turner must help provide for her mother and siblings by herding sheep in the mountains near Cache Valley, Utah.

Provides information about age-appropriate jobs for kids, and includes ideas about earning money.