James D Schmidt

Gebundenes Buch

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor

Beschreibung

This book challenges understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States.

Autor

James D. Schmidt is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His first book, Free to Work (1998), examined the relationship between labor law and the meanings of freedom during the age of emancipation. He teaches courses on the history of law, capitalism, childhood, and the United States in the long nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521198653
• ISBN-10: 0521198658
• Artikelnr.: 29337523