Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

by James D. Schmidt

Book Overview

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor 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. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or economic development, it finds the origin in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers. Drawing on archival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155053
• ISBN13: 9780521155052
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.8"