Summary: Describes the conditions and treatment that drove working children to strike, from the mill workers' strike in 1834 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the children who marched with Mother Jones in 1903.
Contents
Introduction: “Shall We Turn Out?” : Harriet Hanson and the Spinning-Room Strikers
1. “A Devil in Petticoats” : Young Mill Workers Rebel : Lowell, Massachusetts (1836)
2. “Stick Together and We’ll Win” : Messenger, Bootblack, and Newsie Strike Fever : New York City (1899)
3. “Dear God, Will It Ever Be Different?” : Pauline Newman and the New York City Rent Strike (1907)
4. “I’ll Be a Johnny Mitchell Man” : The Anthracite Coal Strikes : Pennsylvania (1897, 1900, and 1902)
5. “We Ask You, Mr. President” : Mother Jones and Her Industrial Army : Philadelphia (1903)
6. “Build Up Your Union” : Agnes Nestor and the Garment Workers’ Strike : Chicago (1897), New York City, and Philadelphia (1909–1910)
7. “The Understood the Stomach Language” : The Lawrence Strike (1912)
8. “Now I Have a Post” : The National Child Labor Committee (1904)
Timeline of Federal Child Labor Laws
Bibliography
Index
Subjects
Strikes and lockouts
US History
Juvenile literature / Children's literature
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Collection
Lawrence History Center Library
Author
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Rights
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