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Peer reviewedBedard, Roger L. – Youth Theatre Journal, 1997
Describes Elbridge T. Gerry's work from 1874 to about 1900 as founder and director of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Notes his place at the center of the controversy surrounding children on the professional stage in New York. (SR)
Descriptors: Acting, Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Hawes, Joseph M. – 1984
The impact of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration on American children from the 1850's to the 1920's is examined. Specifically, child labor, schooling, growing up female in the industrial age, the juvenile justice system, and dependent children are discussed. Before 1900, child protection in all its manifestations was an informal…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children
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
