Academic Journal

Technology's Victims: The Breaker Boys, Ellen Webster Palmer, and the BIA.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Technology's Victims: The Breaker Boys, Ellen Webster Palmer, and the BIA.
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Stout, Zoe
المصدر: Social Studies Journal. Spr 1991 20:26-32.
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 7
تاريخ النشر: 1991
Intended Audience: Researchers
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Historical Materials
Reports - General
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Coal, Grade 8, Males, Mining, Research Papers (Students), Secondary Education, Social History, Social Problems, State History, Student Projects, Technological Advancement, Technology, Work Environment
مصطلحات جغرافية: Pennsylvania
Subject Chronological: Nineteenth Century
تدمد: 0886-9286
مستخلص: Explores, in a reprint of the 1989 Junior Division National History Day winning paper, the history of some technological developments in Pennsylvania's coal mining industry. Examines the "breaker boys," youths who sorted coal in severe working conditions. Introduces Ellen Webster Palmer, who addressed the problem by organizing the Boys' Industrial Association (BIA). (CH)
Entry Date: 1992
رقم الانضمام: EJ433705
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC