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Peer reviewedStout, Zoe – Social Studies Journal, 1991
Explores, in a reprint of the 1989 Junior Division National History Day winning paper, the history of some technological developments in Pennsylvania's coal mining industry. Examines the "breaker boys," youths who sorted coal in severe working conditions. Introduces Ellen Webster Palmer, who addressed the problem by organizing the Boys'…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Coal
Download full textClark-Lewis, Elizabeth – 1985
Experiences of black women, who migrated from the rural south to the District of Columbia between 1900 and 1926, are examined in order to illustrate the nature of household work during this period. While previous research on black private household workers usually attributed changes in household labor to architectural and technological trends,…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Employment, Black Population Trends, Employed Women
