Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism

Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism By Wood, Betsy Published by University of Illinois Press Publication Date: 2020-09-14 Subject: Age Groups: Children, Politics & Government, Industrial Relations, Health & Safety, Advocacy, Family Law: Children, Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations, Law Child Advocacy, Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science Children'S Studies, Social Science, Children'S Studies, Industrial Relations, Occupational Health And Safety, Legal Skills: Advocacy, Child Labor - Political Aspects - History - United States, Sectionalism United States - History, Sectionalism United States, United States, Anf: Society, Law Child Advocacy, Law Child Advocacy, Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science Children'S Studies, Social Science Children'S Studies, Advocacy, Age Groups: Children, Family Law: Children, Industrial Relations, Health & Safety, Politics & Government, Industrial Relations, Occupational Health And Safety, Legal Skills: Advocacy Subject Keywords: child labor; sectionalism; free labor; slavery; emancipation; South; Civil War; Progressive reform; capitalism; consumerism; post-emancipation; gender; race; reform; antebellum; Children’s Aid Society; Reconstruction; formerly enslaved children; Freedmen’s Bureau; Charles Loring Brace; Italian padrone children; industrialization; American imperialism; racial order; Southern Progressivism; Southern textile industry; Edgar Gardner Murphy; poor white children; federal authority; National Child Labor Committee; Progressive Era; Owen Lovejoy; Social Gospel; Mueller v. Oregon; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; World War I; modern child welfare; bureaucratic state; Keating-Owen Act; American toy industry; Child Labor Amendment; 1920s; Southern manufacturers; fundamentalist Christianity; rural America; farm families; New Deal; FDR; National Recovery Administration; Fair Labor Standards Act Genre: Age Groups: Children, Politics & Government, Industrial Relations, Health & Safety, Advocacy, Family Law: Children, Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations, Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Children'S Studies, Age Groups: Children, Industrial Relations, Occupational Health And Safety, Legal Skills: Advocacy, Family Law: Children Target Audience: Professional and scholarly