Child Labor in the South
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A 1907 Outlook feature closing a debate on child labor in Southern cotton mills. It opens with an editorial urging federal legislation and criticizing South Carolina's lack of labor statistics, factory inspection and compulsory education. It is followed by letters from mill officer Captain Ellison A. Smyth and from Dr. A. J. McKelway of the National Child Labor Committee, who dispute the number of children employed, mill goods prices and the age limits in South Carolina law.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1907
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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