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Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
James D. Schmidt challenges existing of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts in statutory reform or economic development, this book finds the origin in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers.
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Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965
This book is about how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s by democratizing the American conception of culture, putting class analysis on the agenda of American social science, rehabilitating the American character for use in history and American studies, studying American values scientifically, and reconciling American culture and civilization. It focuses, in particular, on the intersection between anthropologists' campaign to make Americans culture-conscious and American cultural nationalism.
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