Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Child labor

“Morrison Is Employing Boy 12 Years of Age”

Child labor was common in Tennessee in the late 1800s. Many textile and coal mills in the state employed young children.

Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, was an American labor organizer and one of the founders of the Social Democratic party.

The Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee fed Harlan County’s most desperately hungry children between fall 1931 and spring 1934.

“The idea of Ole Cap just sort of grew on me after I met an old man who had gone to work in the mines when he was 7 years old,” says Swiesz.

At the Depression’s height, 4,000+ textile mill workers in Huntsville walked off the job, beginning a strike that eventually spread to Maine.

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