Child Labour in 1920 Urban America

Marco Manacorda ()

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Abstract: When poor children are working rather than going to school, do their parents work less? And what happens to their siblings? Marco Manacorda looks for answers in the experience of child labour in urban America at the dawn of the jazz age.

Date: 2006-12
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