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A Reformer Describes Child Labor in the Coal Mines
John Spargo's The Bitter Cry of Children, published in 1906, was among the most influential and widely read accounts of child labor written during the Progressive era. Spargo described work at the coal breaker, the area outside the mine where coal [...]
Tags: Child Labor, Progressivism
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Children Working in a Shrimp Cannery (1911)
This 1911 photograph depicts workers, including two young children, picking shrimp in a cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi. Shrimp canneries often employed entire families, many of them immigrants, who worked peeling, cleaning, and cooking shrimp that [...]
Item Type: Item_3352
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)