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Child labor in the Carolinas [electronic resource] : account of investigations made in the cotton mills of North and South Carolina, by Rev. A.E. Seddon, A.H. Ulm and Lewis W. Hine, under the direction of the Southern Office of the National Child Labor Committee / A.J. McKelway.

Summary:

Report investigates mills within a radius of 100 miles of Charlotte, N.C. to look at child labor conditions in North and South Carolina. Looking for infractions based on age, hours of employment, night employment, and degree of danger in tasks performed, they found widespread use of child labor in mills, with the result that many of the children were illiterate or had very little schooling, were underpaid or unpaid, and were unprotected by child labor laws that lacked means of enforcement.

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Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic ed.
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Text scanned (OCR) by Matthew Kern. Images scanned by Matthew Kern. Text encoded by Melissa Meeks.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 12, 2003).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: Child labor in the Carolinas : account of investigations made in the cotton mills of North and South Carolina, by Rev. A.E. Seddon, A.H. Ulm and Lewis W. Hine, under the direction of the Southern Office of the National Child Labor Committee / A.J. McKelway, Secretary for the Southern States. [New York City : National Child Labor Committee, 1909] [20] p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Pamphlet ; no. 92 Cover title. Original copy has some text missing from worn cover.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject: Child labor > North Carolina.
Child labor > South Carolina.
Cotton textile industry > North Carolina.
Cotton textile industry > South Carolina.
Mills and mill-work > North Carolina.
Mills and mill-work > South Carolina.
Textile factories > North Carolina.
Textile factories > North Carolina > Employees.
Textile factories > South Carolina.
Textile factories > South Carolina > Employees.