New York S Newsboys

Author : Karen M. Staller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190886615

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New York's Newsboys by Karen M. Staller Pdf

New York's Newsboys is a lively historical account of Charles Loring Brace's founding and development of the Children's Aid Society to combat a newly emerging social problem, youth homelessness, during the nineteenth century. Poor children slept on the docks, pilfered, and peddled cheap wares to survive, activities which frequently landed them in prison-like juvenile asylums. Brace offered a radical alternative, the Newsboys' Lodging House. From there he launched a network of additional programs, each respecting his clients' free will, contrasting with the policing interventions favored by other reformers. Over four decades Brace built a comprehensive child welfare agency which sought to alleviate suffering, prevent delinquency, and divert children from a life of poverty. Using primary documents and analysis of over 700 original CAS case records, New York's Newsboys offers a new way to look at the foundational roots of social work and child welfare in the United States. In this book, Karen Staller argues that the significance of this chapter in history to the profession, the city of New York, and the country has been under appreciated.

Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199910779

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Crying the News by Vincent DiGirolamo Pdf

From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.

Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199717729

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Crying the News by Vincent DiGirolamo Pdf

From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.

Author : Jeremy P. Felt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hostages of Fortune by Jeremy P. Felt Pdf

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 075652458X

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The American Newsboy by Michael Burgan Pdf

History of American newsboys who made their living walking the streets selling newspapers.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Child labor
ISBN : IND:30000080680873

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Children in Gainful Occupations at the Fourteenth Census of the United States by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Mary Mather Leete,Nettie Pauline McGill,Neva Ruth Deardorff,United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1858 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Child labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112003396949

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Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of State Directors in Charge of the Local Administration of the Maternity and Infancy Act (Act of Congress of November 23, 1921) by Mary Mather Leete,Nettie Pauline McGill,Neva Ruth Deardorff,United States. Children's Bureau Pdf

Author : Hanno Hardt,Bonnie Brennen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780816627066

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Newsworkers by Hanno Hardt,Bonnie Brennen Pdf

What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders - these are the tales that fill media histories in the United States. What's missing is a crucial part of the picture : the rank and file of journalism, and the conditions under which they produced and participated in the business off journalism. Newsworkers supplies this side of the story. Focusing on the period from the 1850s through the 1930s, the contributors show how issues of labor and class have been far more important in the formation of media institutions than previous accounts concede. These essays recover the history of ethnic and cultural diversity - including the contributions of women - that have enriched the process of communication.

Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : CHI:21076002

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Rough and Ready by Horatio Alger (Jr.) Pdf

Rufus, also known as Rough and Ready, is a newsboy who must protect his sister, Rose, from an alcoholic stepfather, James Martin. Through luck, hard work, and honesty, Rufus finds a home for Rose with a kindly seamstress and prospers in his business of selling newspapers. However, Mr. Martin is lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to reclaim the children and hatches a plot to kidnap Rose.

Author : Alice Madorah Donahue,Ella Gardner,Mary Florensia Bogue,Nettie Pauline McGill,Ruth S. Bloodgood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU12861952

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Administration of Mothers' Aid in Ten Localities by Alice Madorah Donahue,Ella Gardner,Mary Florensia Bogue,Nettie Pauline McGill,Ruth S. Bloodgood Pdf

This pamphlet discusses the legislative regulation of public dance halls in twenty-eight states. Some of the regulations undertaken by the states include restrictions on attendance, hours of operation, supervision, and regulation of the physical and social conditions of the hall. The author also discusses some of the regulations and ordinances of 100 cities including one from Lincoln, Nebraska that required patrons to keep their bodies at least six inches apart.

Author : Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day,Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457077

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The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History by Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day,Immanuel Ness Pdf

Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers' lives. This comprehensive encyclopedia is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector, and those focused on a theme. Each industry essay introduces a group of workers and their employers and places them in their economic, political, and community contexts. The essay then describes the industry's various strikes, including the main issues involved and outcomes achieved, and assesses the impact of the strikes on the industry over time. Thematic essays address questions that can only be answered by looking at a variety of strikes across industries, groups of workers, and time, such as, why the number of strikes has declined since the 1970s, or why there was a strike wave in 1946. The contributors include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, as well as current and past activists from unions and other social movement organizations. Photos, a Topic Finder, a bibliography, and name and subject indexes add to the works appeal.

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476602721

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Child Labor in America by Chaim M. Rosenberg Pdf

At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.

Author : United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : MINN:31951000839276P

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Publications of the Children's Bureau by United States. Children's Bureau Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : IND:30000099019774

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Bureau Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nettie Pauline McGill,United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Child labor
ISBN : HARVARD:HL25Z7

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Children in Street Work by Nettie Pauline McGill,United States. Children's Bureau Pdf