Child Labor in City Streets

[45] "The Education, Earnings and Social Condition of Boys Engaged in Street Trading in Manchester," by E. T. Campagnac and C. E. B. Russell; Great Britain, Report of Interdepar...

By far the majority of the children in street occupations are engaged in the sale or delivery of newspapers. The newsboy predominates to such an extent that he is taken as a mat...

Attention was called to the problem of street trading by children in England for the first time, in a comprehensive way, in 1897. A few close observers of social conditions noti...

All the evil effects of street work upon children observed by students of the problem have been here divided into three groups, under the headings of physical, moral, and materi...

Accustomed to seeing messenger boys engaged during the day in the unobjectionable task of delivering telegrams to residences and business offices, one is likely to regard this s...

The most convincing proof so far adduced to show that delinquency is a common result of street work is set forth in the volume on "Juvenile Delinquency and its Relation to Emplo...

There are no reliable figures either official or unofficial showing the number of children engaged in street activities in any city of the United States or in the country at lar...

The economic activities of children in city streets, commonly called street trades, are not specifically covered by the provisions of child labor laws except in the District of...

The efforts which have so far been made in the United States to solve the child labor problem have been directed almost exclusively toward improvement of conditions in mines and...

The itinerant bootblack is gradually disappearing from our cities, but he is still found in Boston, Buffalo, New York City and a few other places. He is being supplanted by the...