Children of the city : at work and at play
Title:
Children of the city : at work and at play
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ISBN:
9780195040159
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1986, ©1985
Physical Description:
244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents:
The city they called home. -- At play in the city. -- Child labor and laborers. -- The littlest hustlers. -- The newsies. -- Junkers, scavengers, and petty thieves. -- The "little mothers" -- All that money could buy. -- The battle for spending money. -- The children and the child-savers. -- Working together. -- Unions and strikes. -- End of an era. -- Appendix: A note on sources: The newsboy studies.
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Summary:
"The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished--and until now unexamined--primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant protrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young." --
