National Child Labor Committee Records

Description

Correspondence, speeches, official records, reports, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks containing form letters, press releases, and newspaper clippings concerning the work of the National Child Labor Committee in promoting the rights and education of children and youth in relation to labor.

Rights

Cleared

Source

Finding Aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012051.3

Alternative Title

National Child Labor Committee Records

Documents in this collection

Child Labor Legislation, a Requisite for Industrial Efficiency, February 15, 1905

Addams gave this speech at a meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, held in New York City. In it she discussed the child labor reform work done in Chicago.

Child Labor Child Welfare Conferences

Address on the Children's Bureau, January 21, 1909

Addams argues for the establishment of a federal bureau for the protection of children, especially regarding the issues of child labor and education. The speech was given before the Fifth National Child Labor Conference, held in Chicago.

Labor Politics

Ten Years' Experience in Illinois, March 12, 1911

Addams' lecture on March 12 at the National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she discusses child labor legislation in Illinois.

Child Labor Education Gambling Lectures Legislation Recreation