book chapter
Italian migrant workers in turn-of-the-century New Jersey
Italian Americans and their public and private life: proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, New Haven, CT, November 14-16, 1991 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1993 • Pages: 36-47
By: Hahamovitch, Cindy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study takes a somewhat revisionist stance on the use of child labor in the New Jersey cranberry bogs. Reformers and progressives of the time sensationalized the exploitation of child labor by their parents and regarded the Italian family and the padroni who recruited them as 'depraved' and 'perverse.' Hahamovitch argues that in the case of Italian immigrant families, child labor was part of the household, all of whose members worked together in the fields in order to maximize the family income and eventually work their way out of the bogs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1905-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern New Jersey, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cindy Hahamovitch
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92056143
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans