Children have worked for centuries and continue to work. The history of the economic development of Europe and North America includes numerous instances of chil

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageway

Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,

The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposi