JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Welcome to the not-too-distant past, the era of my grandmother, when in 1910 50% or more of 10 to 13 year-old boys in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina were working, and working at real jobs. There does seem to be a remarkable change in the employment situation in the next census of 1920.
[The maps below appear in Statistical Atlas of the United States, prepared by Charles S. Sloane, published in Washington, 1925, plates 230 and 232.]
See some earlier posts on child labor:
- Child Labor Street Trades, 1908-1924
- Children and Labor, 1937
- Map of Newsboy Work Violators, 1915–Child Labor & Child Scavengers
- Making Human Junk from Children, 1914
among others…
Maps of the proportion of females 10 to 13 years of age engaged in gainful occupations, 1920: