At the height of the Russian industrial revolution, legions of children toiled in factories, accounting for fifteen percent of the workforce. Yet, by the end of

The first English-language account of the changing role of children in the Russian workforce, from the onset of industrialization until the Communist Revolution

"A Sophisticated, detailed account of the lives of Russian factory women during the formative years of Russian industrial capitalism. Glickman examines the inte

This book challenges understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States.

Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork research, this book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analyzing post-Soviet