The History Project - University of California, Davis
Notes about this image:"Tenement house tobacco strippers. Children work, despite the laws against their employment," 1888.
Citation:Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 28, 1888. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. In Oscar Handlin, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, p. 140. 8.12.6, 11.2.1
Standard:8.12-6.00 child labor, working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward big business and the leaders of (e.g., Samuel Gompers) and the rise of the labor movement, including collective bargaining, strikes, and protests over labor conditions

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