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Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0756544394 |
Recounts photographer Lewis Hines' fight against child labor in the early 1900s and discusses how his work and the work of others revealed truths about the issue to the public.
Author | : Pat Hughes |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780615881676 |
Nate Tanner is a rich boy whose family owns coal mines near Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He has everything a kid could want or need - except a friend. Then he meets Johnny, an easygoing Polish American boy who works sorting coal in a filthy, dark building called a breaker. Unaware that Nate is the boss's son, Johnny invites him to play baseball with the breaker boys. As the summer of 1897 progresses, Nate finds himself piling lie on top of lie to keep his identity secret from Johnny, and the friendship secret from his family. In the patch town where the mining families live, Nate confronts disturbing realities; back at home, he learns of his family's fears about the future. Meanwhile, the miners are joining a labor union to challenge the owners - and the owners are trying to stop a strike. As Nate's moment of truth draws near, so does a violent confrontation that will alter coal country lives forever. Originally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, now in paperback for the first time, "The Breaker Boys" explores both sides of a timeless issue through a nuanced portrayal of both immigrant laborers and the coal-mine owners who employed them.
Author | : Joan Hiatt Harlow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481465392 |
In 1911 Pennsylvania Coal Country, can Corey overcome the panic attacks that prevent him from helping support his family? Corey is just a kid, but his family needs him to chip in. He’s dropped out of school and works as a breaker boy—picking out coal impurities from bins—in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. But after a skating accident nearly kills Corey, he begins having panic attacks and nightmares. Corey turns to Mrs. Chudzik, a strange and mysterious local recluse, for help. She’s a trained doctor and Corey’s overwhelming fear of tight spaces means he is jeopardizing his family’s future. When there is a disaster at the mine, trapping his father, Corey knows it’s time to face his fear. He and Mrs. Chudzik’s hound, Hovi, must find the trapped miners and bring help. But how can he when the thought of being in the dark and enclosed space might be more than Corey can handle?
Author | : Bill Walker |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452070334 |
The B'Breakeboys is a fictional story about child labor conditions, until 1920, when child labor laws restricted such practice. The fact based story is followed by a fictional story about two teen age boys falling into an abandoned coal mine shaft. They are not alone and have to fight desperation, cave-ins, rats, fire, water, and old dynamite to escape. The format is a movie script imbedded with drawn storyboard picture frames.
Author | : Donna Sauritch Basile |
Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1645692884 |
Scorned and rejected from an upper-class way of life because of a father's pride, thirteen-year-old Christen Saurich and her family are uprooted and thrust into unsuspecting turmoil and intrigue awaiting them in a small town in Pennsylvania. Her father's cousin, Heinri, along with his wife Anna and son Sam, help them settle in a small mining town where her father has taken a job. Shortly after her family moves to the coal patch, her father is killed in a mining accident. With nowhere to turn and no resources, Chris takes a job to help support her mother and sister, Gezzelle. Disguised as a boy, she takes a job in the coal breakers. It is 1899 when a blind eye is turned toward child labor and child abuse. It's grueling work. She sits hunched over for hours, separating impurities from the newly mined coal while breathing in noxious dust. It is a noisy and filthy place. Many high-spirited boys lose their lives falling into the chutes, smothered by an avalanche of coal, or are mangled in the massive machinery. Fear, despair, and solitude become her teachers. Stern and relentless, she learns from them. Time pushes her forward into a stark and unforgiving way of life. Chris's faith and unrelenting courage are consistently challenged. Foreboding times are approaching: influenza, devastating mine explosions, and finally a miners' strike that leaves them in despair. Addie Paige comes into their lives, and everything changes. A new path is forged, and finally hope is within their grasp.
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Includes: National Child Labor Committee (U.S.). Proceedings of the ... annual conference, 8th-14th, 1912-18, and its Annual Report 7th-14th, 1910/11-1917/18.
Author | : American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Child labor |
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Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1909 |
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