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- More US teens work than in any other country
- Four historical eras in adolescent employment:
- Pre-industrial/Agrarian
- Industrial Revolution
- Unionization/Urbanization & Mandatory Schooling
- Post-War Service Economy
- Agrarian culture:
- Gradual assumption of adult roles
- Father as primary parent
- Ideology: Child as useful
- Early 1800's Industrialization
- urbanization
- changes in the workplace
- death of apprenticeships
- child factory workers
- declining need for labor
- changes in the family
- division of labor
- Late 1800's
- changes in the workplace
- increasing labor surplus
- changes in the family
- changing role of women
- ideology of the priceless child
- SUMMARY OF STATUS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY:
- Labor surplus
- Unionization
- Child protectionists