Bibliography


Child Labor in the American South
:  Project Bibliography

Books, Theses, and  Pamphlets

Ayers, Edward L.  The promise of the New South: life after Reconstruction.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1992.

"Berry and Vegetable Pickers in Maryland Fields, Child Labor in Vegetable Canneries in Maryland." Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, 1929.

Bremner, Robert H. "Children and Youth: Social Problems and Social Policy." New York: Arno Press, 1974.

Brown, Edward F. "Child Labor in New York Canning Factories." Reprinted from The Child Labor Bulletin, New York, 1913. In Children in the Fields, edited by Dan C. McCurry. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Brownell, Blaine A. and Davis. 

Goldfield, ed.The City in southern history : the growth of urban civilization in the South.  Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1977.

Burton, R. Lee. Canneries of the Eastern Shore. Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers, 1986.

Campbell, Tracy. The Politics Of Despair. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.


Carlton, David L.  Mill and town in South Carolina, 1880-1920. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Child workers in the tenements. New York : National Child Labor Committee, 1912.

Chute,Charles L.. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets. 151-200. 157, The Glass Industry and Child Labor Legislation. New York: Macmillan Company, 1911.Clopper,E.N.. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets. 51-100. 86, Child Labor in West Virginia. New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. 
 

Clopper,E.N.. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets. 101-150. 142, Child Labor in West Virginia. New York: Macmillan Company, 1911.

Cobb, James C.  Industrialization and southern society, 1877-1984. Chicago, Ill. : Dorsey Press, 1988,

Cooper, Patricia Ann. From Hand Craft To Mass Production: Men, Woman and the Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1909- 1919.Maryland:University Of Maryland, 1981.

Peter A. Coclanis and Stuart Bruchey (editors).  Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The United States Experience since 1800 (Columbia, South Carolina, United States, University of South of Carolina Press, 1999). 

Curtis, Verna Posever. Photography and reform : Lewis Hine & the National Child Labor Committee. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, c1984.

Danzer, A. Gerald, Alva de Klor, Jorge. J., Wilson, E. Louis, Woloch, Nancy. The Americans. Boston: McDougal Littell, 1998.

DiGirolamo, Vincent Richard. Crying the news :  children, street work, and the American press,1830s-1920s. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1997.

Eller, Ronald D. Miners, millhands, and mountaineers : industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930.  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Eschenbrenner, Josephine J. "Day and Night in a Vegetable Canning Factory: A Personal Experience." Reprinted from The Child Labor Bulletin, New York, 1913. In Children in the Fields, edited by Dan C. McCurry. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Fickle, James E. The New South and the "New Competition": Trade Association Development in the Southern Pine Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.

Flamming, Douglas. 1992. Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton Georgia, 1884-1984. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 

Freedman, Russell. Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor.  New York: Clarion Books, 1994.

Goldberg, Vicki. Lewis W. Hine children at work. Munich ; New York: Prestel, 1999.

Goldfield, David R. Region, race, and cities : interpreting the urban South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

Goldmark, Pauline. "Do children work in the canneries?" New York: New York Child
Labor Committee, 1907.

Greene, Laura Offenhartz. Child Labor: Then and Now. New York: Franklin Watts Inc, 1992.

Greff, Jacqueline. Fell's Point: Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia
Publishing, 2005.

Gutman, Judith Mara. Lewis W. Hine and the American social conscience. New York:  Walker, 1967.

Gutman, Judith Mara. Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940: two perspectives. New York : Grossman Publishers, 1974.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, et al, Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Hawes, Joseph M. The children's rights movement : a history of advocacy and protection. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Hickman, Nollie. Mississippi Harvest; Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915. University, Miss.: University of Mississippi, 1962.

Hindman, Hugh D. Child labor [electronic resource] : an American history. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2002.

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940. America & Lewis Hine : photographs 1904-1940 [exhibition].  foreword by Walter Rosenblum ; biographical notes by Naomi Rosenblum ; essay by Alan Trachtenberg. New York : Aperture, inc., 1977.

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940. Lewis Hine : passionate journey : photographs 1905-1937 / edited by Karl Steinorth ; texts by Anthony Bannon, Marianne Fulton and Karl Steinorth. Zurich : Edition Stemmle, 1996.

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940. Lewis Hine : photographs of child labor in the new South. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1986.

Ingalls, Robert.P and Perez, Louis, Tampa Cigar Workers: a pictorial history. Florida: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Kaplan, Daile, ed.  Photo story : selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine.  Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Killebrew, J.B and Herbert Myrick. Tobacco Leaf Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1920.

Lander, Ernest M. A City without Cobwebs: A History of Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Journal of Southern History, 1954

Larsen, Lawrence Harold.  The urban South : a history. Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Levander, Caroline F. and Carol J. Singley. The American child : a cultural studies reader. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Litwack, Leon F.  Trouble in Mind:  Black Southerners in the Age of JIm Crow.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1998.

Living In Our World: North Carolina. New York: Macmillan/Mcgraw-Hill, 1998.

Lumpkin, Katharine DuPre, Dorothy Wolff Douglass. Child Workers in America. New York: International Publishers, 1937.

Matthews, Ellen Nathalie. "Children in Fruit and Vegetable Canneries: A Survey in Seven States." From the United States of America Department of Labor, Bureau Publication No. 198. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1925.

McKelway, A. J. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets. No 51-100. No 92. Child Labor in the Carolinas. New York: Macmillan Company, 1910.

Myth, memory and imagination : universal themes in the life and culture of the South : selections from the collection of Julia J. Norrell. Columbia, S.C.] : McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, 1999.

National Child Labor Committee (Agr-Md-s1). Agricultural Work and School Attendance: An Investigation in Four Counties of Maryland, May 1915. Washington DC: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Container 2, 1910 - 1937 Commission Reports on Agriculture and Canneries. File Folder: Agricultural Work and School Attendance.

National Child Labor Committee (Agr-Md-be1). Berry Pickers of Maryland. Washington DC: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Container 2, 1910 - 1937 Commission Reports on Agriculture and Canneries. File Folder: Maryland 1913 Strawberries.

National Child Labor Committee (Agr-Md-be2). Report on the Investigation of Strawberry Farms of Anne Arundel Co. Maryland, June 1913. Washington DC: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Container 2: 1910 - 1937 Commission Reports on Agriculture and Canneries. File Folder: Maryland 1913 Strawberries.

National Child Labor Committee (Agr-Del-1). Child Workers in the Fields and Canneriesof Delaware. Washington DC: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Container 2: 1910 - 1937 Commission Reports on Agriculture and Canneries. File Folder: Delaware Berry Picking and Canning.

National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) Rural child welfare; an inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee, based upon conditions in West Virginia.  New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922.

National Child Labor Committee. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets: Child Labor in Mississippi. 151-200. Pamphlet No. 169.  New York: MacMillan Company, 1910. (By A.J. Mckelway)

 

National Child Labor Committee. National Child Labor Committee Pamphlets. 151-200. 136, Reports from State and Local Labor Committees.  New York: MacMillan Company, 1910.

 

--. 138, Child Labor in Georgia.  New York: Macmillan Company, 1910. 

 

--. 152, NCLC Extracts fom the report of the US Bureau of Labor. New York: Macmillan Company, 1911.

 

--. 171, Child Labor in Virginia.  New York: Macmillan Company, 1912.

 

--. 185, Child Labor: Statistics, Causes, Effects, Prevetion.  New York: Macmillan Company, 1912.

 

"Photographs from New York State Canneries: Summer, 1912." Reprinted from The Child Labor Bulletin, New York, 1913. In Children in the Fields, edited by Dan C. McCurry. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Priceless children : American photographs, 1890-1925 : child labor and the pictorialist ideal / curated by George Dimock. Greensboro, NC : Weatherspoon Art Museum ; Seattle, WA : distributed by the University of Washington Press, 2002.

 

 Marjatta Rahikainen.  Centuries of Child Labor: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Burlington, Vermont, United States, Ashgate, 2004).

Sallee, Shelley.  The whiteness of child labor reform in the New South.  Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2004.

 

Salmond, John A. Gastonia 1929 The Story of the Loray Mill Strike. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995

 

Shifflett, Crandall A. Coal towns : life, work, and culture in company towns of southern Appalachia, 1880-1960. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

 

 Ronald B. Taylor.  Sweatshops in the Sun: Child Labor on the Farm (Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Beacon Press, 1973).

Trattner, Walter I. Crusade for the Children: A History of the National Child Labor Committee and Child Labor Reform in America. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.

Tullos, Allen.  Habits of industry : white culture and the transformation of the Carolina Piedmont. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Vance, Rupert Bayless,  The urban South. Rupert B. Vance and Nicholas J. Demerath, editors. With the assistance of Sara Smith and Elizabeth M. Fink. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1971, 1954]

Waldrep III, G.C.  Southern Workers and the Search for Community.  Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Child Labor: Report of the Committee on Vocational Guidance and Child Labor. New York, London: The Century Co., 1932.

Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South : revolutions in the southern economy since the Civil War. New York : Basic Books, 1986.

 Gertrude Folks Zimand.  "Children who work on the Nation's Crops" from American Farmers and The Rise of Agribusiness: Seeds of Struggle (New York, Arno Press, 1975) edited by Dan C. McCurry and Richard E. Rubenstein.

 

Articles

Bynum, Jefferson. “Piedmont North Carolina and Textile Production,” Economic Geography, 4 (1928), 232-240

 

Carlson, Leonard A.  "Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills, and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880-1900."  The Journal of Economic History Vol. 41, No. 1 (March, 1981) pp. 65-71.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, Robert Korstad, James Leloudis.  "Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940."  The American Historical Review Vol. 91, No. 2 (April, 1986) pp. 245 - 286.

Heiss, M.W., “The Southern Cotton Mill Village: A Viewpoint,” Journal of Social Forces, 2 (1924), 345-350.

 

Holleran, Philip M., "Family income and child labor in Carolina cotton mills," Social Science History, 21 (1997), 297-320.

Matthies, Susan A.  "Families at Work: An Analysis by Sex of Child Workers in the Cotton Textile Industry."  The Journal of Economic History Vol. 42, No.1 (March, 1982) pp. 173 - 180.

McHugh, Cathy Louise. “The Family Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915,” The Journal of Economic History, 42 (1982), 220-222

Selby, John G. "Better to Starve in the Shade Than in the Factory: Labor Protest in High Point, North Carolina, in the Early 1930's." North Carolina Historical Review 64:1 (1987): 43-64.

Walters, Pamela and Carl Briggs. "The Family Economy, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century South." American Sociological Review 58: 2 (1993): 163-181.

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Basu, Kaushik and Pham Hoang Van. "The Economics Of Child Labor" The American Economic Review Vol. 88, No. 3. June 1998. <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282%28199806%2988%3A3%3C412%3ATEOCL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4> [Accessed February 23, 2007].  

Bellande, Ray L. “The Seafood Industry at Ocean Springs.” Ocean Spring Archives. 28 Feb 2007 <http://www.oceanspringsarchives.com/seafood.htm>  

 

Columbus. New Georgia Encyclopedia. 30 March 2004. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2208 [Accessed 8 March 2007]

 

Crop Profile for Corn in Kentucky. Nov. 21, 2000.  http://pestdata.ncsu.edu/cropprofiles/docs/KYcorn.html

 

Davis, Shelley. Child Labor in Agriculture.  ERIC Digest. Charlestown, WV. 1997. http://www.ericdigests.org/1997-4/labor.htm

 

First American Cotton Mill.  Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Retrieved March 8, 2007.  http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec20.html 

 

Goebel, Sarah. Young Dairymen’s Conference. WBKO-TV. Bowling Green, KY.Feb 8, 2007. http://gray.printhis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=WBKO 

 

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 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916. U.S. National archives & Records Administration. Washington DC.  Retrieved March 5, 2007.  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?flash=false&page 

Lewis Hine.  Spartacus.  Retrieved March 8, 2007.  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRhine.htm

Natanson, Barbara O.  National Child Labor Committee Collection: Background and Scope.  Library of Congress, Washington D.C.  (28 October 2004)  Retrieved March 8, 2007.  http://memory.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcback.html

Nation, Allan.  How We Farmed-Traditional American Farming Techniques and What We Can Learn From Them. The Weston A. Price Foundation. Retrieved March 4, 2007. http://www.westonprice.org/farming/tradtional-farming.html

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Schmidt, Aimee. “Down Around Biloxi: Culture and Identity in the Biloxi Seafood Industry.” Mississippi Folklife 28.1 (1995). 1 March 2007 http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/publish/missfolk/backissues/biloxi.html

 

Solomon-McCarthy, Sharron. The History of Child Labor in the United States: Hammer v. Dagenhart. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Retrieved March 4, 2007.  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2004 

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