Industrialization & Child Labor in New York
Additional Resources
Books
Auch, M.J. Ashes of Roses. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002.
A historical fiction novel about a young immigrant worker who finds herself trapped in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Kids on Strike! New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Accounts of individual children’s experiences with child labor during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Friedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.
An account of child labor in the early 1900s and Lewis Hine’s role in fighting against it through his photography.
Gunderson, Jessica. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Graphic Library, Disasters in History.) Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2006.
Tells the story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in graphic novel format.
Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Joshua's Song. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003.
A historical fiction novel about a young newsboy working in Boston in 1919.
McCully, Emily Arnold. The Bobbin Girl. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996.
Based on the true story of a 10-year-old girl working as a bobbin girl in a factory in early 19th century Lowell, MA.
Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. New York: Puffin, 2004.
A historical fiction novel about a young girl working in the factories in 19th century Lowell, MA.
Videos
Newsies. Walt Disney Video, January 1992. A true story about a group of newsboys in 1899 who work together to fight a crooked newspaper tycoon.
Web Resources
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/#documents
A lesson from the national archives about the history of child labor using the photographs of Lewis Hine.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/index.html#
A set of lessons about industrialization and child labor in America from the Library of Congress.
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/life/topic11.html
Information for kids about the history of child labor in New York from PBS Kids.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/lyddie/
A lesson about child labor using the historical fiction novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson.
http://stopchildlabor.org/
Contemporary statistics and information about child labor from the National Consumers League.
