Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism

by Betsy Wood

Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.

Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085345
• ISBN13: 9780252085345
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"