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Young Copperfield's life is happy at first, but he is forced to run away from his home following the arrival of his stepfather. David is then adopted by his aunt, Betsey Trotwood, sent to school at Canterbury and meets the unctuous Uriah Heep, whose activities lead eventually to David's self-discovery.

"As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools, while those who owe money are turned away...

Authors offer differing opinions on various legal, ethical, and practical aspects that surround the issue of child labor and sweatshops around the world.

Photographs and text document working children especially in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Mexico. Includes a chapter on Iqbal Masih, the child labor activist from Pakistan.

Twelve year-old Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school to work as doffers in the mill. Grace meets Lewis Hine, a reformer with a camera, who finds his way into the mill so that he can take pictures of kids like Grace and Arthur next to the enormous spinning frames that beat out the rhythm of their twelve-hour days. Grace becomes his secret ally.

Twelve-year-old Ana dreams of leaving her small Bolivian mining town high in the Andres for another life. On her mountain, the air is thin, the weather cold, and no matter how hard her father works in the mines or her mother searches through discarded rocks for bits of silver to sell there's never enough food or money. To make it off the mountain and get a job in the cities down below, Ana knows she must stay in school. But Ana's dream of a better...

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall. Under pressure from him, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage - not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle the charity running it to do what they like with them. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them...

Young workers tell their story of child labor, their exploitation, and how to ensure their rights in the work force.

In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.