"Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
Report
By: Owen R. Lovejoy
Date: 1911
Source: National Child Labor Committee. "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform." Uniform Child Labor Laws: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, March 9–12, 1911. New York: National Child Labor Committee 1911, 31–38.
About the Author: Owen R. Lovejoy (1866–1961), minister and social worker, was one of the leading spokespersons in the opposition to child labor. Born near Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lovejoy was educated at Albion College and became a minister in 1891. He was asked to report on the conditions in the anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1902 coal strike, and in doing so he observed children working in the mines. In 1904, the newly formed National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) asked him to return to the area to study the conditions of child labor. As a result of that report,...
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