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Child Labor Pathfinder Books These books are available in the Northwood Middle School Library. ||  Title Online Articles From [|__www.SCDISCUS.org__] __SIRS Discoverer__- Keywords: Child Labor, Children’s Rights; Child Labor, Laws and Legislation = **“What Is Child Labor?” b// y Chivy Sok; //FACES April 2006, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 8-12**  = “Working Kids” WEEKLY READER-4 Nov. 10, 2000, pp. 2+ “Child Labor” by Robert Korstad;  TAR HEEL JUNIOR HISTORIAN  ;  Fall 1999, pp. 28-30
 * Author  ||   Call Number   ||
 * Weary Work and Lousy Leasure  ||   John Townsend   ||   305.2309 TOWNSEND   ||
 * Child Labor and Sweat Shops  ||   Ann Manheimer   ||   331.3 CHILD   ||
 * Child labor today : a human rights issue  ||   Wendy Herumin   ||   331.3 HERUMIN   ||
 * Good girl work : factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce  ||   Catherine Gourley   ||   331.31 GOURLEY   ||
 * Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor  ||   Russell Freedman   ||   331.31 FREEDMAN   ||
 * Growing up in coal country  ||   Susan Campbell Bartoletti   ||   331.3 BARTOLETTI   ||
 * Labor legislation : the struggle to gain rights for America's workforce  ||   Katherine Lawrence   ||   344.7301 LAWRENCE   ||

** __ Kids InfoBits __ - ** **Keywords: Child Labor** **"** [|__**Child labor**__] **."** ** // The Columbia Encyclopedia //, 6th ed. Columbia University Press, 2000. **    **"** [|__**Mother Jones**__] **."**  ** // First Facts About American Heroes //. Online Edition. Blackbirch  ** ** “Can India Saves Its Working Kids?” Singh, Madhur  ; // Time for Kids // Feb 1, 2008 v13 i17 p4  ** ** "Lost childhoods” by Sean Price; // Junior Scholastic // Jan 22, 2007 v109 i11 p10(6)    **

**  “Children Work Illegally in Mexico’s Farms”   by Chris Hawley    ;   // USA Today // May 9, 2008 p17A

**     Websites Keywords: child labor, child labor laws, coal mining, textile mills Child Labor [|__http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/labour/index.htm__] Provides and overview with statistics about the current status of child labor and examples of children and their work conditions. Child Labor [|__http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/wdacl/index.htm__] This Flash presentation defines the wide-spread practice of child labor and offers facts on the topic. Find out why child labor is a problem and why it exists; read about its impact on education and the different types of child labor. Also, review some myths of child labor and read what the International Labor Organization is doing to end the worst forms of child labor. Department of Labor [|__http://www.dol.gov/__] Use this website for information about current labor laws in the US. Youth Rules [|__http://www.youthrules.dol.gov/__] Created by the Department of Labor this website gives the current labor regulations in the US for individuals under the age of 18. Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution [|__http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html__] Gives general information about life during the industrial revolution, but specifically discusses jobs of children working in coal mines. Labor History of Snohomish County Washington [|__http://www.snolabor.org/pages/history.htm__] There are many pictures of laborers in textile mills, canneries, glass factories and coal mines. The Story of Child Labor [|__http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01908/800/index.htm__] A Think quest created by high school students on child labor around the world. It has statistics about conditions in specific countries. Child Labor Public Education Project [|__http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/__] This site was created by the University of Iowa Labor Center. This site provides a history of child labor, law to prevent child labor and a survey of the current practices around the world.