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Appropriating the Healthy Child: and Progressive Era Child Labor Photography

Cara A. Finnegan

in Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression

This chapter examines a type of viewer response to visual narratives about child labor produced by Lewis Hine and others: Thomas Robinson Dawley Jr.'s 1912 book The Child That Toileth Not: The Story ... More

This chapter examines a type of viewer response to visual narratives about child labor produced by Lewis Hine and others: Thomas Robinson Dawley Jr.'s 1912 book The Child That Toileth Not: The Story of a Government Investigation. Dawley's 490-page polemic, which contains more than 100 photographs, was based on field investigations of child labor that he conducted in Southern cotton mills while working for the U.S. Bureau of Labor. Dawley combines text and image to build a detailed refutation of Albert Beveridge and his ilk. In The Child That Toileth Not Dawley avoids picturing children actually working. Instead, he deploys vivid description to tell a story of the laboring child citizen's good fortune. In addition, Dawley finds in child labor photography, especially in the work of Hine, resources for strategic appropriation. By appropriating the structure, style, and strategies of a decade-old, multimodal anti-child labor narrative, Dawley repositions the working child as the apotheosis of the values of citizenship rather than their denigration.Less

Large-Scale Industry

Tirthankar Roy

in The Economic History of India, 1857-2010

Between 1860 and 1940, employment in factories increased from less than 100,000 to two million. The growth of large-scale industrial units using machines and wage-workers was impressive but had ... More

Between 1860 and 1940, employment in factories increased from less than 100,000 to two million. The growth of large-scale industrial units using machines and wage-workers was impressive but had certain peculiar features. These industries mainly produced different kinds of textiles, processed agricultural commodities, and stayed confined to only a few cities. The chapter shows why factories emerged in India on such a scale, why they remained confined to a few areas, how the business communities that invested in factories raised the capital, how they managed their businesses, if the state did or did not help them, and where the workers came from.Less

“Cotton Mill Blues”: Lester (The Highway Man) [Lester “Pete” Bivins] Decca 5559

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discusses Lester (“Pete”) Bivins, “Cotton Mill Blues”, topical songs, occupational songs, cotton mills, and Decca Records

Quitting Time

Peter C. Baldwin

in In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

This chapter examines the work and leisure in American cities during the 1800s. It explains that urban work regimens created a double life for young workers, a day of confined drudgery and an evening ... More

This chapter examines the work and leisure in American cities during the 1800s. It explains that urban work regimens created a double life for young workers, a day of confined drudgery and an evening of limitless freedom. It describes the work and nighttime leisure of two groups of young. These are the girls and women who worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts and the boys and men who worked as clerks in New York City. This chapter also discusses how these young workers turned urban nightlife into a more salient site of conflict.Less

“Cotton Mill Girl”: Earl McCoy and Jessie Brock Columbia 15499-D

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discusses Earl McCoy, Jessie Brock, “Cotton Mill Girl”, Byrum Lawson, topical songs, cotton mills, location recording, Columbia Records, and old-time music

Foothold

Jie Li

in Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life

This chapter examines two alleyway homes, namely, the Alliance Lane and the Japanese Shanghai Cotton Mill Employee Housing, both located in the industrial Yangshupu District. Built with colonial ... More

This chapter examines two alleyway homes, namely, the Alliance Lane and the Japanese Shanghai Cotton Mill Employee Housing, both located in the industrial Yangshupu District. Built with colonial capital in an industrialized area of the International Settlement, the former alleyway compound accommodated Chinese small factory owners and the “Number Ones” (foremen) of larger factories along with their multigenerational and polygamous families, while the latter served as Japanese company housing. When their foreign owners were repatriated, both housing compounds became “public housing” under communism, and with every political campaign, more workers moved into such “bourgeois” neighborhoods. These alleyways thus became contact zones between Shanghai's foreign spheres and the Chinese sphere as well as between the city's old and new ruling classes. As overcrowding was exacerbated in the socialist and early reform eras, people turned on their neighbors, parents, and siblings to secure more dwelling space for themselves, albeit often in the name of the collective.Less

Beginnings, 1863–1893

in The Lancashire Giant: David Shackleton, Labour Leader and Civil Servant

This chapter examines David Shackleton personal life and his early career in the labour movement. It discusses his family background, his employment as a ‘halftime’ weaver in a cotton mill at the age ... More

This chapter examines David Shackleton personal life and his early career in the labour movement. It discusses his family background, his employment as a ‘halftime’ weaver in a cotton mill at the age of nine and highlights the influence of the cotton strike of 1878 on his views about the labour sector. It describes Shackleton's first participation in the labour movement after his marriage in 1883, his promotion to the management committee of the Accrington Power Loom Weavers' Friendly Association (APLWFA), and his selection to become a delegate to the Northern Counties Amalgamated Weavers' Association (NCAWA) in 1885.Less

Summary and Conclusion

Aaron D. Anderson

in Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914

This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and presents some final thoughts. The emergence of the postwar merchant class changed the face of the Natchez District. Using their position in the ... More

This chapter summarizes the preceding discussions and presents some final thoughts. The emergence of the postwar merchant class changed the face of the Natchez District. Using their position in the cash-credit nexus and their growing control of local political and civic organizations, they fostered countless changes and improvements in the region: building and developing railroads, infrastructure, cotton mills and manufactories, and commercial and residential buildings, all the while becoming leading proponents of Gilded Age business, organizational, and technological innovations.Less

“Lindy”/“Louise”: Proximity String Quartet Columbia 15533-D

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discuses Proximity String Quartet, “Lindy” “Louise”, parlor songs, stringband, cotton mills, and old-time music

“Chain Gang Special”/“Walk Right in Belmont”: Watts and Wilson Paramount 3019

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discusses Wilmer Watts, Frank Wilson, “Chain Gang Special”, “Walk Right in Belmont”, cotton mills, Paramount Records, and Harry S. Charles

“My Father Doesn’t Love Me”: Louis McDaniel—Gid Smith [actually Lewis McDaniel solo] Timely Tunes C-1560

Tony Russell

in Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

This chapter discusses Lewis McDaniel, “My Father Doesn’t Love Me”, topical songs, Virgie Bowling, cotton mills, and autobiographical songs