American Decades
"Children Hurt at Work"
Journal article
By: Gertrude Folks Zimand
Date: July 1932
Source: Zimand, Gertrude Folks. "Children Hurt at Work." The Survey, July 1932.
About the Author: Gertrude Folks Zimand (1894–1966) was the director of research and publicity for the National Child Labor Committee, a private organization founded in 1904 and dedicated to controlling child labor, establishing fair laws, and protecting working children. The committee continued to operate in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Introduction
The work of children is integral to the history of the United States. They worked on family farms and for family businesses. With the industrial revolution, however, they also began to labor in mills, mines, and factories. The 1900 U.S. census showed that almost two million children between the ages of ten and fifteen were employed. The National Child Labor...
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1930's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- Opinions on Mental Health
- Radio Address on a Program of Assistance for the Crippled
- "Preventing Disease in the Nation"
- "Children Hurt at Work"
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Morale: The Mental Hygiene of Unemployment
- "Dear Mr. Hopkins"
- Prenatal Care for Rural Poor
- Consumer Protection Expands
- "Surgery Used on the Soul-Sick; Relief of Obsessions is Reported"
- March of Dimes Poster
- Shadow on the Land
- "Dust"
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- "Hot Lunches for a Million School Children"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
