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History and Urban Studies 971: Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems
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History Of Early Twentieth Century Child Labor In America, Vijaya Tamla Rai
History Of Early Twentieth Century Child Labor In America, Vijaya Tamla Rai
History and Urban Studies 971: Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems
This paper portrays the lives of children laboring in early twentieth century America with a closer focus on cases from Wisconsin. Child labor permits issued by Ozaukee County court and other literature and reports on child labor from the Archives of the UWM Libraries, and photographs depicting child labor taken by Lewis Hine from the National Child Labor Committee Collection are primary sources.