Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
Spring 2001
Journal or Book Title
Nebraska History
Volume
82
Issue
1
First Page
2
Last Page
10
Abstract
Bryan Echtemkardt and Laura Brown were tum-of-the-twentieth-century Nebraska farm children. Certainly they attended school and played with their friends, but when writing to the children's page of a farm magazine, they described their lives largely in terms of work. In a nation where childhood, in the ideal, was increasingly defined by school and play, farm families continued to be highly integrated and interdependent units. Their success depended upon the work of children who remained tied economically to the family until they were twenty-one years old or married. Moreover, for the children-and their families-to be successful, children had to cultivate habits of independence and initiative from a very early age, and take on the work habits of adults well before their twentieth year.
Copyright Owner
Nebraska State Historical Society
Copyright Date
2001
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, "`But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of You Do?’: Child Labor on Nebraska’s Farms, 1870-1920" (2001). History Publications. 54.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/history_pubs/54
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Comments
This is an article from Nebraska History 82 (2001): 2. Posted with permission.