Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3133904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Gratton (Professor of History, Arizona State University), Jon Moen (0000-0002-4641-0932, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi), Jon R Moen (University of Mississippi) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-391 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002219504771997890 |
| OpenAlex | W2084110487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 48 |
Alarmed by child labor in factories and mills, Progressive-era reformers criticized immigrants and immigrant cultures for sanctioning exploitation of their young. Neither qualitative nor quantitative appraisals find much evidence that ethnicity had any important effect on the likelihood that a child would work. Relative and absolute poverty were more important influences. Under all conditions, black children were much more likely to work. The use of children as workers, customary in all rural societies including that of the American family farm, reappeared in industrial settings and then quickly declined. Higher male earnings, technological shifts, and changes in law and culture compelled children to become students instead of wage earners
Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the 19th Century
Theory of fertility decline
Lives of their own
The transplanted
Anthropological demography
American exodus
Inventing the Industrial Revolution
Like a Family
Pricing the priceless child
Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930
Family and Community
Children of the City
Ethnic Differences
White Scourge
Family and Community
From Gainful Employment to Labor Force
Hispanics in the United States, 1850–1990
Estimates of White and Nonwhite Gainful Workers in the United States by Age Group, Race, and Sex Decennial Census Years, 1800-1900
Exploring Diversity in Middle-Class Families
Juvenile Justice before Juvenile Court
Small Worlds
Trade-offs in the Family
The Poverty of Impoverishment Theory
Compulsory Schooling Legislation
The Age of the Child
Peasant Maids-City Women
The Origins and Expansion of the Male Breadwinner Family
Corporal punishment and children's wages in nineteenth century Britain
The Exploitation of Little Children
Destined for Deprivation
State Child Labor Laws and the Decline of Child Labor
Children in American Street Trades
The Enforcement of Child Labor Legislation in Illinois
Child Labor in the Coal Mines
The Decline of Child Labor in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Canning Industry
Changing Education Strategies Among Immigrant Generations
The decline of child labour
The Demographic Transition Then and Now
Who Lives With Whom? Individual Versus Household Measures
Children's Work and Schooling in the Late Nineteenth-Century Family Economy
The Family Economy, Child Labor, and Schooling
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865
Small Worlds
Human Capital and Social Capital
The Minds of the West
Family Time and Industrial Time
Education and Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |