James D. Schmidt - Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor (2010), Biznes, 01 - USA(2)
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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
disturbs settled
understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings
of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution
and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory
reform or economic development, it inds the origin in litigations that
occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers.
Drawing on archival case records from the Appalachian South between
the 1880s and the 1920s, the book argues that young workers and their
families envisioned an industrial childhood that rested on negotiating
safe workplaces, a vision at odds with child labor reform. Local court
battles over industrial violence confronted working people with a legal
language of childhood incapacity and slowly moved them to accept the
lexicon of child labor. In this way, the law fashioned the broad social
relations of modern industrial childhood.
James D. Schmidt is associate professor of history at Northern Illinois
University. His irst book,
Free to Work
(1998), examined the relation-
ship between labor law and the meanings of freedom during the age
of emancipation. He teaches courses on the history of law, capitalism,
childhood, and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
Cambridge Historical Studies in American
Law and Society
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