Concordia Library: Industrial Revolution: Child Labor

Overview

This section addresses child labor in America in the 1800s and shows that it still exists today.

1894: Life of a Coal Miner

Author of the well-known novel Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane also wrote the short story "In the Depths of a Coal Mine" in 1894. Our students will read this story as part of understanding the context of child labor in the late 1800s.

In the Depths of a Coal Mine
By Stephen Crane. McClure's Magazine, Vol. III. August, 1894. No. 3
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The Boys in the Breakers
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Hard Times

Hard Times
Freedom: A History of US - Segment 6
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PBS

Coal Miner Boys

“Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Pittston, Pennsylvania.”

LC-DIG-nclc-01137, 1911, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

My Children Are Seven in Number

Smithsonian Folkways
American Industrial Ballads
"Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music." Featuring Pete Seeger
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TRACK ARTIST Pete Seeger
COUNTRY(S) United States
CULTURE GROUP(S) Anglo-American
GENRE(S) Folk songs--United States; Folksong revival
INSTRUMENT(S) Banjo; Vocals
LANGUAGE(S) English
DURATION 3:59