Child Labor Online Resources
Industrial Revolution resources
The Story of My Cotton Dress
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http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/cottondress.cfm
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Mr. Coal's Story
(
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/mrcoal.cfm
)
History of Child Labor
(
http://www.earlham.edu/%7epols/globalprobs/children/Laila.html
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The History Place: Child Labor in America 19081912
(
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
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Child Labor in Factories
(
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html
)
Spartacus Educational: Child Labour
(
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
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Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution
(
http://www.woonsocket.org/slater.htm
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Contemporary child labor resources
Children for Hire
(
http://www.nandotimes.com/nt/images/child/child.html
)
Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change
(
http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/
)
In Our Own Backyard: The Hidden Problem of Child Farmworkers in America
(
http://www.ourownbackyard.org/index.shtml
)
"Young Migrant Workers Toil in U.S. Fields"
(
http://208.106.244.178/pdfs/Part%201H-Young%20Migrant%20Workers%20Toil.pdf
)
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