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Technology's Victims: The Breaker Boys, Ellen Webster Palmer, and the BIA.

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Stout, 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

Children's Work Under Market Conditions. (Findings of a Sociological Survey).

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Ivashchenko, G. M.; Plotkin, M. M.; Shirinskii, V. I. – Russian Education and Society, 1997

Reports on the results of a survey of more than 1200 Russian adolescents concerning the conflict between work and education commitments. Reveals that almost one in four students work parttime, mainly in unskilled jobs, to purchase fashionable goods. Discusses implications and possible responses to this situation. (MJP)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Capitalism, Child Labor, Child Welfare