Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

Informationen zum Autor James D. Schmidt is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His first book, Free to Work (1998), examined the relationship between labor law and the meanings of freedom during the age of emancipation. He teaches courses on the history of law, capitalism, childhood, and the United States in the long nineteenth century. Klappentext This book challenges understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States.This book challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression, finding the origins of the shifts in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: the job; 1. Big enough to work; 2. The divine right to do nothing; 3. Mashed to pieces; 4. Natural instincts; 5. An injury to all; 6. The dawn of child labor; Epilogue: get up and play.

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• Authors: James D Schmidt, James D. Schmidt, James D. (Northern Illinois University) Schmidt, Schmidt James D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521198653
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19865-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Legal History, History of the Americas