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Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country's legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal struggle. The book offers the first full account of child...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1910-1919. Includes information about William Howard Taft; the political comeback of Teddy Roosevelt; the "Bull Moose" party; enactment of child labor laws; the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand that started World War I; the sinking of the Lusitania in which 1198 died; the submarine battles of World War I; U.S. participation...