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Kids On Strike!
by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395888921
- ISBN 13
- 9780395888926
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 2d . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very large, heavy book, red covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, lavender color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 208 heavy glossy pages, many photos of children protesting. On title page in neat black ink: "for Leslie, with best wishes, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2/8/01." DJ glossy beneath mylar, red and white with photo of children asking for schooling and justice on front, young woman posing on back. DJ has thin tiny tear at bottom front tip. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
Kids on Strike! tells the story of children who stood up for their rights against powerful company owners, from a "turn-out" in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1836 led by eleven-year-old Harriet Hanson to the dramatic strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. By the early 1900s nearly two million children were in the United States work force. Their tiny fingers, strong eyesight, and boundless energy made them perfect employees. But after years and years of working long hours every day under harsh and inhumane conditions, children began to organize and make demands in order to protect themselves. They fought for better wages, fairer housing costs, and safer working environments. Susan Campbell Bartoletti tells of labor strikes led by young people throughout the United States. Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs from newspapers and journals as well as with the work of photographer Lewis Hine, this book provides an inside look at the individual and gripping events that shaped t
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46549
- Title
- Kids On Strike!
- Author
- Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2d
- ISBN 10
- 0395888921
- ISBN 13
- 9780395888926
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
- Keywords
- Signed Children Union Strikes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Radical and Revolutionary;
Terms of Sale
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