Growing up in North America
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Arianna Chand215558869 HIST 1080 Growing Up in North America Prof.M Ladd-Taylor E.MorettoPart I: Explain The Reading Children of the City focuses on innocent children who worked hard for their family and themselves. David Nasaw’s Children of the City talks about the memoirs and autobiographies of immigrant and native-born children in America who work to make a living in the period of the nineteenth to twentieth century. Nasaw speaks about the innocence of the children and how their childhood is taken away from them because of the work that they do. Children would do work like selling newspapers, Hershey’s chocolate, gum, and crackers (Nasaw.,pg.81). The most hard working ones would be in mines, and factories until a new child labor law came into effect after there was activists who made a deal to end that type of terrifying work. Trying to make a living for their family would be a hard job because they would also have to juggle school and work. Fortunately, children whose families could afford to keep them in
school had to work part time instead of full-time. Children had to try their best to sell products because if they weren’t good salesmen, they wouldn’t get any money. Boys were very different from girls when it came to work. Girls were mostly found clustered in doorways, in the middle of the streets, or closer to home. They were called the ‘little hustlers’ or ‘little mothers’. Girls would usually be at home helping their mothers cook or clean. Overall, all the children worked very hard to earn income for their families. David Nasaw’s main evidence was about children working hard throughout the day to make some income for their families and wellbeing. He also spoke about Jewish, Italian, Polish, German or Irish people, religion, and ethnicity. Primary sources were memoirs and photographs. David Nasaw’s assumption were about the big differences and the experiences between gender, gender roles and the history. David believes that child nature is about children being able to actually enjoy their childhood, and that gender whether it is about boys or girls are still children