Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Growing Up in Coal Country. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.
Bodnar, John. Anthracite People: Families, Unions and Work, 1900-1940. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1983.
A slim but captivating book containing oral histories from members of anthracite mining families.
Currie, Stephen. We Have Marched Together:The Working Children’s Crusade. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing, 1997.
Written for grades 7-12, this book looks at child labor at the turn of the 20th century. It specifically focuses on the child labor march led by Mother Jones of textile workers from Philadelphia to New York City in 1903.
Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor. New York, NY: Clarion, 1994.
This book features photos by Lewis Hine taken of child laborers across the United States. It shows the jobs young boys and girls held across the country.
Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003.
This informative book provides a very comprehensive study of coal mining. It begins with coal mining history in England and Scotland, covers bituminous and anthracite mining in the United States, and also gives some information on mining in China. It emphasizes health issues and pollution involved in mining and burning coal through the past several centuries.
Kielburger, Carl and Kevin Major. The Children: A Young Man's Personal Crusade Against Child Labor. Harper Collins: New York, NY, 1999.
This book is an inspiring story of a young student (the author) called to activism to change the worldwide abuse of children's rights.
This website shows that issues of child labor continue today. This coalition provides current articles of child labor issues and advocates the end of unfair child labor practices.
Child Labor in U.S. History-The Child Labor Education Project http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_his...
This project from Iowa offers excellent information on the history of child labor in America. It defines basic questions such as “What is Child Labor?”, clarifies causes and effects of underage employment, and offers timelines of labor legislation. Teaching materials are also available through this site.
ICCLE-The International Center on Child Labor and Education http://www.knowchildlabor.org/
The website, made possible by a Department of Labor grant, is a wonderful resource. Among its informative pages, it provides numerous teacher resources (curricula development, online resources, videos, student materials/books), primary resources of interviews from young children employed all over the globe, and student activist ideas. [There is a group called CHEER Action Group. This name stands for Children Helping to Educate (themselves and their communities), Eliminate (child labor), and Respond (CHEER).]
Library of Congress, Teacher Lesson Plan- Child Labor in America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/labor/plan.html
Library of Congress offers a unit on child labor in America based on their Lewis Hine photographs and reports.
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) http://www.msha.gov/District/Dist_01/d1home.asp
This website has several informative pages for teachers. There is a listing of fatal coal mine disasters in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region from 1846 to 1959, a list of fatalities in the anthracite region by decade, a timeline of anthracite coal mining from prehistory through 1987, and definitions of coal mining terms.
NYPL Digital Gallery-Lewis Wickes Hine: Documentary Photographs, 1905-1938 http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic...
This gallery includes Hine images of labor, housing, and social conditions in the United States from 1905-1938.
National Child Labor Committee Collection: Photographs by Lewis Hine http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207_hine.html
Working as an investigative reporter, Lewis Hine created over 5,000 images and numerous reports about the condition of children working.
The History Place, Child Labor in America http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
This website displays Lewis Hine’s photography of children at work. The images are categorized by the many different types of jobs Hine’s found children working in across the country.
eHistory at OSU , "Multimedia Histories-Child Labor and Child Labor Reform in American History" http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/default.cfm
This site includes two Lewis Hine’s children’s stories and a gallery of images from the Child Labor Bulletin.
