Upon the altar of work child labor and the rise of a new American sectionalism
"Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
The working class in American history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4501744x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Fields of Free Labor: Child Rescue and Sectional Crisis
- 2 Testing Ground of Freedom: Child Labor in the Age of Emancipation
- 3 Seeds of a New Sectionalism: Southern Origins of Child Labor Reform
- 4 Child Labor Abolitionists: A Northern Progressive Vision
- 5 Cultural Warriors: A Southern Capitalist Vision
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
