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2) Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts photographer Lewis Hines' fight against child labor in the early 1900s and discusses how his work and the work of others revealed truths about the issue to the public.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
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