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Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Jane Addams (1860-1935), social reformer and founder of Hull House. She advocated juvenile-court law, tenement house regulation, 8-hour work day for women and labor rights.
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University of Missouri

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"They're putting on witnesses who they know are lying. They concealed exonerating evidence. Don't we have enough criminal conduct by the prosecutors to put them behind bars?" "It doesn't work that way," the lawyer laughed. "The law is...
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In the late nineteenth century, the Knights of Labor attempted to organize workers of all kinds into a union to improve working hours and conditions for laborers.
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Khan Academy: Learning Coding on Khan Academy

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Learning coding in Khan Academy provides video/walk throughs, challenges, and a work project to apply skills learned.
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Human Rights Watch

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An article focused on the drastic conditions and ruination of children who work on farms. The Human Rights Watch investigates the corruption of farmers abusing their child employees from their working conditions, hours, and pay among...
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An article regarding the Knights of Labor and their struggle for the eight-hour day, abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and political reforms including the graduated income tax.

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