Child Labor in City Streets
by Edward Nicholas Clopper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Clopper, Edward Nicholas, 1879-1953
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Heike Leichsenring and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Child labor
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44396
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44396
- Release Date
- December 9, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CHILD LABOR IN CITY STREETS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF THE STREET-WORKING CHILD—PUBLIC APATHY—RELATION TO OTHER PROBLEMS — Broader Aspects of the Problem
- 5.CHAPTER II EXTENT TO WHICH CHILDREN ENGAGE IN STREET ACTIVITIES IN AMERICA AND EUROPE — Chicago — Boston — New York City — Cincinnati — The Padrone System — Minor Street Occupations — Conditions in Great Britain — Conditions in Germany — Conditions in Austria
- 6.CHAPTER III NEWSPAPER SELLERS — Ages, Earnings and Character of the Work — Environment — Hours — Home Conditions—Poverty — Better Substitutes — The Newsboys' Court — Summary
- 7.CHAPTER IV BOOTBLACKS, PEDDLERS AND MARKET CHILDREN — Bootblacks — The Padrone System — Peddlers and Market Children
- 8.CHAPTER V MESSENGERS, ERRAND AND DELIVERY CHILDREN — Night Service by Men—Not by Boys
- 9.CHAPTER VI EFFECTS OF STREET WORK UPON CHILDREN
- 10.CHAPTER VII RELATION OF STREET WORK TO DELINQUENCY — Street Workers in Indiana Boys' School, 1910
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE STRUGGLE FOR REGULATION IN THE UNITED STATES — Present Laws and Ordinances — Opposition to Regulation — Ways and Means of Regulating Street Work — Probable Course of Regulation in Future
- 12.CHAPTER IX DEVELOPMENT OF STREET TRADES REGULATION IN EUROPE — Great Britain — Liverpool — London — Manchester — New South Wales — Canada — Germany — France
- 13.CONCLUSION
- 14.FOOTNOTES:
- 15.BIBLIOGRAPHY — BOOKS — MAGAZINE ARTICLES
- 16.APPENDICES — APPENDIX A LAWS — Wisconsin — London, England — APPENDIX B TWO TYPES OF NEWSBOY BADGES. — APPENDIX C CARDS FOR INVESTIGATIONS — Cards used by Boston School Committee for Issuance of Licenses — Form of Application for License used in Hartford, Conn. — Form used in Obtaining Information before the Issuing of a Badge in Province of Manitoba, Canada. — Sample of Card used in Investigation of Street Trades in Philadelphia — Sample of Card used in Investigation of Newsboys in Milwaukee
- 17.INDEX
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