The Victorian era conjures images of buttoned-up propriety, strict moral codes, and a society obsessed with decorum and respectability. It was a world of parlor etiquette, modest dress, and rigid ...

Introduction : child labor as a social and economic problem -- Industrialization of child labor -- Child labor reform : the change after the change -- Children in the coal mines -- Light manufacturing ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...