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Peer reviewedSocial Education, 1982
Contains learning activities dealing with child labor around 1908 and utilizing primary source documents for secondary U.S. history classes. Students read and discuss two oral accounts and analyze three photographs depicting child labor and working conditions in 1908. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Labor Conditions, Learning Activities, Oral History
Peer reviewedStevens, Robert L.; Fogel, Jared A. – Social Education, 1999
Examines three of the changes wrought by coal mining: (1) the miner's working conditions; (2) the establishment of company towns; and (3) the violence that ensued when miners from Harlan County, Kentucky, referred to as "Bloody Harlan," tried to better their lives by joining labor unions. (CMK)
Descriptors: Coal, Labor Conditions, Labor Problems, Mining
