"Canal-Boat Children"
Journal article
By: Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (Ethel M. Springer)
Date: February 1923
Source: Springer, Ethel M. "Canal-Boat Children," Monthly Labor Review 16, no. 2, February 1923. Available online at http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/bib/springer/ (accessed January 28, 2003).
About the Organization: In 1906, Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana sponsored a bill to "prevent the employment of children in factories and mines." Though the measure was defeated, reformers pressured Congress to create the federal Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor in 1912. The bureau was charged with investigating and reporting "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."
Introduction
In colonial America, child labor was...
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