Children of the City At Work and at Play

Name: Children of the City At Work and at Play
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ISBN: 9780345802972

ISBN-10: 0345802977

ISBN-13: 9780345802972

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Nasaw

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This classic title, which was the inspiration for the story behind the new musicalNewsies, paints a surprising and indelible portrait of the bitter hardships, amazing resourcefulness, and unadulterated joys experienced by immigrant children in American metropolises at the turn of the century.The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. InChildren of the City,David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

David Nasaw is currently a professor of history and director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he lives in Manhattan.



Acknowledgments


Preface



The City They Called Home



At Play in the City



Child Labor and Laborers



The Littlest Hustlers



The Newsies



Junkers, Scavengers, and Petty Thieves



The Little Mothers



All That Money Could Buy



The Battle for Spending Money



The Children and the Child-Savers



Working Together



Unions and Strikes



End of an Era


Epilogue


Appendix: A Note on Sources: The Newsboy Studies


Abbreviations


Notes


Index