Child Labor in City Streets

by Edward Nicholas Clopper

[INDEX]

• Addams, Jane, on Illinois child labor law, [15].
• Age limit (see Laws and Ordinances), [194]-[196].
• Austria, investigation of 1907, [49]-[51].
• Begging, [38], [69], [96], [220].
• Berlin regulations, [240].
• Bootblacks, [83], [93].
  • Ages, [84].
  • Delinquency, [165].
  • Diseases, [87], [88].
  • Earnings, [84], [89], [95].
  • Environment, [86], [87].
  • Home conditions, [85].
  • Hours, [84], [85], [94], [95].
  • Padrone System, report by Immigration Commission, [86]-[92].
    • Report by North American Civic League for Immigrants, [83], [84].
• Boston, license statistics, [33].
  • Regulations of street work, [196].
• Boston Newsboys' Court, [79]-[81].
• Boston Newsboys' Republic, [212].
• Buffalo conditions, report on, [132], [133].
• Canada, [238].
• Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, [14], [29].
• Chicago statistics of local studies, [28], [29].
• Chicago Vice Commission's report, [30], [67], [96], [118].
• Child Welfare Exhibit, [14].
  • Chicago, [29].
  • New York, [60].
• Cincinnati, license statistics, [35], [71].
  • Market children, [97].
  • Newsboy conditions, [54].
  • Regulations of street work, [196].
• Delinquency, relation to street work, report of Dr. Charles P. Neill, [159].
  • Chicago juvenile court records, [178].
  • Connection between occupation and offense, [171].
  • Records of Indiana Boys' School, [179]-[187].
• Delivery Service, [68], [161]-[174].
• Detroit, regulations of street work, [193].
• Edinburgh, conditions in, [44], [125], [224].
• Effects of street work, classified, [128].
  • In Buffalo, [132], [133].
  • In physical deterioration, [142]-[145].
  • Opinions of superintendents of reformatories, [131], [132].
• Employment distinguished from independent work, [2], [192].
• Enforcement of regulations, [132], [208], [211].
• Errand running, [202].
  • Delinquency, [161]-[174].
• France, regulations, [241].
• Germany, inquiry of 1898, [45]-[48].
  • Regulations, [239].
• Girls as newspaper sellers, [31], [65], [200].
• Great Britain, Departmental Committee of 1910, [76], [138], [147], [197], [223], [237].
  • Employment of Children Act, 1903, [221].
  • Interdepartmental Committee of 1901, [43], [73], [145], [203], [217].
  • Interdepartmental Committee of 1902 on Ireland, [150], [204], [220].
  • Interdepartmental Committee of 1904 on Physical Deterioration, [125], [142].
  • Parliamentary return of 1899, [39]-[42], [215].
• Hartford, regulations of street work, [196].
• Housing problem's relation to street trading, [20].
• Illinois, effort to regulate street trading, [14], [198].
• Immigration Commission, report on Padrone System, [36], [86]-[92].
• Ireland, report of Interdepartmental Committee of 1902, [150], [204], [220].
• Kelley, Florence, on street trading, [52], [70], [127], [207].
• Laws, table of state, [194].
• Licenses for street work required, [197], [209].
• License statistics, of Boston, [33].
  • Of Cincinnati, [35], [71].
  • Of New York, [16], [34].
• Liverpool, conditions, [230].
  • Regulations, [232].
• London County Council bylaws, [233]-[236], [264].
• Lovejoy, Owen R., on messenger service, [123].
• Manchester regulations, [236].
• Market children, [21], [96].
  • Ages, [97].
  • Earnings, [96].
  • Home conditions, [99], [100].
  • Hours, [99].
  • Nationalities, [97], [98].
  • Orphanage, [100].
  • Retardation, [98], [99].
• Merchandise, distinction between newspapers and, [189].
• Messenger boys, [101].
  • Ages, [106]-[117].
  • Character of work, [101]-[104].
  • Chicago Vice Commission's report, [118]-[121].
  • Delinquency, [104], [165], [169].
  • Diseases, [111], [112], [113].
  • Earnings, [106], [112], [113], [114].
  • Environment, [102], [103].
  • Hours, [108], [113], [115], [119].
  • Investigation in Ohio Valley, [106]-[117].
  • Lack of prospects, [104], [126].
  • Poverty as excuse for work, [122].
  • Use of men instead of boys, [105], [123]-[125].
• Nationality of street workers, [33], [97].
• Nearing, Scott, conditions in Philadelphia, [69], [135].
• Neill, Charles P., on newsboys' work, [64].
  • On messenger service, [117].
  • Report on Juvenile Delinquency and its Relation to Employment, [159].
• Newark, regulations of street work, [196].
• New York, report of newsboy investigation, [16], [34], [148].
  • Child Welfare Exhibit, [60].
  • Regulations of street work, [195].
• Newsboys, ages, [54]-[60].
  • Associations, [66].
  • Character of work, [56]-[58].
  • Classified, [52].
  • Delinquency, [165].
  • Diseases, [136].
  • Earnings compared with factory wages, [58].
  • Environment, [60], [135].
  • Home conditions, [70]-[72].
  • Hours, [65]-[70].
  • Irregularity of meals, [61].
  • Orphanage, [71], [168].
  • Retardation, [147]-[156].
  • Substitutes, [75]-[79].
  • Tricks of the trade, [63]-[64].
• Newsboys' Court of Boston, [79]-[81].
• Newsboys' Republic of Boston, [212].
• New South Wales, license statistics, [45].
  • Regulations, [45], [238].
• Newspapers, as merchandise, [189].
  • Attitude toward regulation, [28], [199].
• Night work, of messengers, [101], [169].
  • Of newsboys, [65]-[70].
• Ordinances, table of city, [196].
• Padrone System, report, of Immigration Commission, [36], [86]-[92].
  • North American Civic League for Immigrants, [83], [84].
• Peddlers, findings of Chicago Vice Commission, [96].
  • Cincinnati statistics, [97].
  • Delinquency, [165].
  • Immigration Commission's report, [36].
• Philadelphia conditions, [69].
• Playgrounds, [22].
• Poverty as an excuse for street work, [70]-[73], [136]-[138].
• Prohibition, of night work, [208].
  • Of street work by children, [224], [227].
• Regulation, by municipality or state, [205].
  • Degree of, [193], [206].
  • In future, [207].
  • Unsatisfactory, [228].
• Retardation in school of street workers, [98], [147]-[156].
• Rochester, method of enforcement, [211].
• St. Louis statistics, [146], [151].
• School, as social center, [21].
  • Retardation of street workers, [98], [147]-[156].
• Scotland, conditions, [44], [225].
• Spargo, John, on effects of street work, [135].
• Statistics, of U.S. Census, [24], [25].
  • Austria, [49]-[51].
  • Boston, [33].
  • Chicago, [28], [29].
  • Cincinnati, [35], [71].
  • Germany, [45]-[48].
  • Great Britain, [40]-[44], [143]-[145].
  • New York, [16], [34], [148].
• Street as a social agent, [17].
• Street employments, distinction between, [5].
• Street occupations, of minor importance, [38].
  • Classified, [4].
  • Contrasted with regular work, [73], [139].
• Street trading defined, [3].
  • Neglected in legislation, [7], [12], [192].
• Street trading problem related to other problems, [20].
• Toledo, retardation of street workers, [152]-[156].
• Vagrants, Chicago report on, [32].
• Vice Commission of Chicago, report, [30], [67], [96], [118].
• Wisconsin, law, [257].

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