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A Team Discussion Activity

Use this list of resources to complete Questions For Investigation.

Electronic Sources

"Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage"
Read: Entire article

"In the Depths of a Coal Mine"
Read: Entire article

"A Mule Spinner Tells the U.S. Senate about Late Nineteenth Century Unemployment"
Read: Entire article

Text

Cahn, Rhoda and William. No Time for School No Time For Play.
Read: Introduction and selected chapters.

Foner, Moe. Images of Labor, A Bread and Roses Book. Pilgrim Press, 1981.
Read: Introduction and selected chapters

Freedman, Russell, Immigrant Kids. New York: Scholastic, 1980
Read: Introduction and selected chapters

Freedman, Russell, Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, New York, Clarion Publishing, 1994.
Read: Introduction and selected chapters

Horton, Madelyn. The Importance of Mother Jones. San Diego, Lucent Books, ____.
Read: Introduction, Chapter 4 and selected chapters

Kraft, Betsy Harvey. Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor. New York: Clarion, 1995.
Read: Introduction and selected chapters

The Story of Child Labor in America, New York: Crowell, Collier, 1970.
Read: Introduction and selected chapters

 

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