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• Child Workers in America (New York: International Publishers, c1937), by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Dorothy W. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Youth in Industry (International Pamphlets #13, second edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by Grace Hutchins (PDF at flvc.org)
• Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor, its Causes, its Crimes, and its Cure (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1914), by Edwin Markham, Ben B. Lindsey, and George Creel, contrib. by Owen R. Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (Toronto: G. N. Morang Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Child (partial serial archives)
• The Child Labor Bulletin (full serial archives)

• The Child Labor Question in Alabama: A Plea for Immediate Action (pamphlet #59; New York: National Child Labor Committee, ca. 1907), by Edgar Gardner Murphy (page images at Harvard)
• Rural School Attendance in Alabama (pamphlet #287; New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1918), by Eva Joffe (page images at Harvard)

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study (1912), by Frances Blascoer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard

• Child Toilers of Boston Streets (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1879), by E. E. Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Kinderarbeit und Gesetzlicher Kinderschutz in Österreich (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien v5 #3, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: F. Deuticke, 1904), by Siegmund Kraus
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• By the Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress (initial child labor report, 1994), by United States Department of Labor (HTML and PDF at dol.gov)

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Children's Story of David Copperfield (adaptation of Dickens by unknown author; Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1926), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• The Young Apprentice (credited to "the author of Fern's Hollow", i.e. Stretton; Boston: H. Hoyt, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Curse of the Factory System: or, A Short Account of the Origin of Factory Cruelties; Of the Attempts to Protect the Children by Law; Of Their Present Sufferings; Our Duty Towards Them; Injustice of Mr. Thomson's Bill; The Folly of the Political Economists; A Warning Against Sending the Children of the South into the Factories of the North (London : A. Cobbett, ca. 1836), by John Fielden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, c2012), by Jennifer Huberman (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Ben, the Luggage Boy: or, Among the Wharves, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Stephen, M.D. (New York: Robert Carter and Bros., c1883), by Susan Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (10th edition, 1904), by Gulielma Zollinger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Resolutions Adopted by First International Congress of Working Women, Washington, U.S.A., October 28 to November 6, 1919, by International Congress of Working Women (page images at Harvard)

• A Voice from the Factories (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1836), by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• American Labor in Midpassage (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1959), ed. by Bert Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sociology and the Unrecognized Worker (ca. 1977), by National Labor Federation (multiple formats at archive.org)
• People at Work (New York: The John Day Co., c1934), by Frances Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Documentary History of American Industrial Society (10 volumes plus 1 supplementary volume; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910-1911), ed. by John R. Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV supplement: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
• Should a Political Labor Party be Formed? (1918), by Samuel Gompers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Stake in Bretton Woods (New York: American Labor Conference on International Affairs, c1945), by Broadus Mitchell and Francis L. Hauser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Contribution to America's Victory and to Italy's Freedom (first annual report of the council, in English and Italian; ca. 1942), by Italian-American Labor Council (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thirty-Five Years of Educational Pioneering: L.I.D. Celebrates Past Achievements and Asks "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1941), by League for Industrial Democracy, contrib. by John Dewey, Jonathan Daniels, Norman Thomas, and Harry W. Laidler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and Steel (New York: International Publishers, c1933), by Horace B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The NRA and American Labor (New York: Workers Age, 1933), by Will Herberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor and Silk (New York: International Publishers, c1929), by Grace Hutchins, illust. by Esther Shemitz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (Pasadena, CA: The author, ca. 1926), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Labor and Textiles: A Study of Cotton and Wool Manufacturing (New York: International Publishers, c1931), by Robert W. Dunn and Jack Hardy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fair Play for the Workers: Some Sides of Their Maladjustment and the Causes (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., c1918), by Percy Stickney Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Right: A Plea for Fair Play Through a More Just Social Order (reprint; originally published New York: Eastern Book Concern, 1899), by Samuel Milton Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Worker Correspondents: What? When? Where? Why? How? (Little Red Library #4; ca. 1925), by William F. Dunne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at marxists.org
• The Negro Under Capitalism: Resolution Adopted by the Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers League of the United States, September 3-4, 1938, Chicago (Detroit: Demos Press, ca. 1938), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)

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