Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution
Primary Source Document Analysis
Document A
Series 12979, Union label registration application files, 1889-1943, New York State Department of State.
Document B
Supreme Court brief outlining findings of the Factory Investigating Commission.
Series A3024, Proofs of brief supporting the conviction of Jacob Balofsky, 1914, New York State Factory Investigating Commission.
Series A3024, Proofs of brief supporting the conviction of Jacob Balofsky, 1914, New York State Factory Investigating Commission.
Document C
Excerpt of Chapter 529 of the Laws of 1913, prohibiting the employment of children less than fourteen years of age in manufacturing work in tenement houses.
Document D
Letter from WPA Teachers Union to Governor Lehman expressing the union members' position on child labor.
Document E
Telegram from the Mrs. of Nassau County to Governor Lehman protesting the Child Labor Amendment on the grounds of government encroachment on family decisions.
Document F
Article clipping from 1931, Chauncey, PA.
Document G
Vera Hill, age 5, picks 25 pounds of cotton a day in Oklahoma.
