Kids on Strike!
- ISBN-10
- 0395888921
- ISBN-13
- 9780395888926
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Description
A stirring account of the labor movement's action against child labor abuses chronicles strikes led by children from 1836 to 1912, offering authentic newspaper photographs and an absorbing discussion of the development of child labor laws.
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