Child Labor in the Early Sugar Beet Industry in the Great Plains, 1890-1920

Autor/in	Lyons-Barrett, Mary
Titel	Child Labor in the Early Sugar Beet Industry in the Great Plains, 1890-1920
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (2005) 1, S.29-38 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	Laborers; Agriculture; Child Labor; Migrant Children; Rural Areas; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landwirtschaft; Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; USA
Abstract	Children working in agriculture have always been a part of the rural culture and work ethos of the United States, especially on the Great Plains. Many teenagers still detassel corn or walk the beans in the summer months to earn spending money or money for college. But what about the children who work as migrant laborers in commercialized agriculture? These children, even today, typically go untracked by governmental agencies. The children may lag behind in school because of their family's migrations and their frequent absences from school to work in the crops. Unlike the child who works during the summer to earn supplemental income, the migrant family's wage is often tied to the labor of the child worker. While the majority of commercially grown crops today are worked by migrants on the coasts, the use of child labor in commercialized agriculture in the Great Plains has a long and checkered history. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10