Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

James D. (Northern Illinois University) Schmidt

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521155052
ISBN-10
0521155053
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
Publication date
2010-03-08
Pages
304
Dimensions
228x153x17
Weight
400