Upon the altar of work : child labor and the rise of a new American sectionalism /

"Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the...

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Main Author: Wood, Betsy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:Working class in American history.
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