From the B&B Archives: Bootleggers, Baptists and Child Labor

Jane Shaw Stroup outlines how early child labor laws had their own B&B story

This week we highlight a September 2020 blog essay by retired non-profit manager and historian-in-training Jane Shaw Stroup. She argues that early British child labor laws were driven in part by economic interests wanting to put competitive pressure on smaller mills. She writes:

“In 1977 economist Howard Marvel came up with an explanation. He argued that…