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Child Labor

Related Resources

Annual report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the State of Connecticut. 1894

Child Labor, Gene Leach and Nancy O. Albert. Ct Explored. 2004

Child Labor Exposed: The Legacy of Photographer Lewis Hine. New England Historical Society

Child Labor in Connecticut, Patrick Mahoney. CT History

Industrial instability of child workers. A study of employment-certificate records in Connecticut, Robert Morse Woodbury, 1920

Library of Congress, Lewis Hine and Connecticut Photos

Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee Collection

Report of the Bureau of labor on the conditions of wage-earning women and girls by Connecticut. Bureau of labor statistics. Charlotte Molyneux Holloway. Hartford, 1914

State of Ct. Report of the Department of labor on the conditions of wage-earners in the state. Printed in compliance with statute, 1918.