Kids on Strike!

Kids on Strike!
ISBN-10
0618369236
ISBN-13
9780618369232
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Description

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers' strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers. Reprint.

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