| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Child Labor: An American History. By Hugh D. Hindman. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2002. xii, 431 pp. Cloth, $83.95, ISBN 0-7656-0935-5. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7656-0936-3.)

Hugh D. Hindman's study of child labor in America begins, but does not end, with economic determinism. His stated thesis, that industrial development first created and then solved the child labor problem, misstates the major thrust of the book. The first three chapters concisely bring the reader from the advent of industrial capitalism to the reform movements of the Progressive Era, and the closing chapters place the American experience in the context of the global economy. The middle, most substantive and original, section of the book, however, focuses entirely on the early-twentieth-century reform efforts of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), following the tradition of Walter I. Trattner's Crusade for the Children (1970). In the end, Hindman asserts that moral indignation and legal strictures must combine with high adult wages to keep children out of the factories.

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