Child Labor and Exploitation in Turn-of-the-Century Cotton Mills

Holleran, Philip M.

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“…8 The contributions of Carolina mill children were comparatively high. For example, the 1907 Senate survey also covered families of child silk workers in northeastern Pennsylvania, a region where families were thought to be heavily dependent on children's earnings; children under 16 in these families accounted for about 20% of family income (Holleran 1996). 9 Nearly half of the fathers of mill children surveyed by Senate investigators were themselves cotton mill workers.…”

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“…14 Goldin (1979: 120) similarly argues that since 97% of the fathers in her sample listed an occupation, fathers' labor force participation was independent of children's earnings. 15 Suppose that a child's daily wage depends on days worked and also on gender, age, months of schooling, months of experience (and months of experience squared), and occupation (see the earnings function estimates in Holleran 1993). The Hausman procedure is as follows (see Pindyck and Rubinfeld 1991: 303-5).…”

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Family Income and Child Labor in Carolina Cotton Mills

Holleran¹

1997

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Family Income and Child Labor in Carolina Cotton Mills

Holleran¹

1997

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“…2 Examples from the literature in economics include Horrell and Humphries (1995) and Holleran (1995).…”

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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke

2013

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“…2 Examples from the literature in economics include Horrell and Humphries (1995) and Holleran (1995). 3 See for example the discussions in Baland and Robinson (2000) and Doepke and Krueger (2006).…”

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Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare

Doepke

2013

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Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard dynastic social welfare function, which is commonly applied to intergenerational models, child labor is never exploitative. In contrast, under an inclusive welfare function, which places additional weight on the welfare of children, child labor is always exploitative. Neither welfare function captures the more gradual distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards the child. I argue that this welfare function best captures the conventional concept of exploitation and has useful properties for informing political choices regarding child labor.

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Child Labor and Exploitation in Turn-of-the-Century Cotton Mills

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Family Income and Child Labor in Carolina Cotton Mills

Family Income and Child Labor in Carolina Cotton Mills

Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare

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