Child labor: an American history

pt. I. The child labor problem: introduction: child Labor as a social and economic problem

Industrialization of child labor

Child labor reform: the change after the change

pt. II. Child labor in America: children in the coal mines

Light manufacturing: children in the glasshouses

Cotton textiles: herod of industries

Tenement homework: birthplace of the sweatshop

The street trades

Agriculture and food processing

pt. III. Child labor's legacy: America and child labor today

Global child labor: past as prologue.