What was school like 100 years ago? A lot harder, and dirtier. Here's how kids learned in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just a statistic; it's a terrifying echo of the early 1900s, an era we swore we'd left behind.

The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor ...