Kids on strike!

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Book

Kids on strike! / Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0395888921
ISBN: 9780395888926
ISBN: 0618369236
ISBN: 9780618369232
ISBN: 9781439579022
ISBN: 1439579024
ISBN: 032934627X
ISBN: 032961911X
ISBN: 9780329346270
ISBN: 9780329619114
Physical Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: "Shall We Turn Out?" Harriet Hanson and the Spinning-Room Strikers -- "A Devil in Petticoats" Young Mill Workers Rebel Lowell, Massachusetts (1836) -- "Stick Together and We'll Win" Messenger, Bootblack, and Newsie Strike Fever New York City (1899) -- "Dear God, Will It Ever Be Different?" Pauline Newman and the New York City Rent Strike (1907) -- "I'll Be a Johnny Mitchell Man" The Anthracite Coal Strikes Pennsylvania (1897, 1900, and 1902) -- "We Ask You, Mr. President" Mother Jones and Her Industrial Army Philadelphia (1903) -- "Build Up Your Union" Agnes Nestor and the Garment Workers' Strike Chicago (1897), New York City, and Philadelphia (1909-1910) -- "They Understood the Stomach Language" The Lawrence Strike (1912) -- "Now I Have a Past" The National Child Labor Committee (1904) -- A Timeline of Federal Child Labor Laws.
Awards Note:: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2000.