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Factory rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848, Massachusetts Investigation into Labor, Conditions, Factory Life Description, and Boarding House Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1948
<http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html>

"Mr. Coal's Story"--Mr. Coal's Story, an appeal to end child labor in coal mines.
<http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/childlabor/mrcoalsstory/>

"The Story of My Cotton Dress"
<http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/childlabor/cottondress/>

Harriet Robinson's Story as one of the Lowell Mill Girls
<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html>

Lowell History: A Mill Girl Called Lucy Larcom
<http://www.lowellonline.org/hist/history2.html>

American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Memory: Child Labor
<http://www.lowellonline.org/hist/history2.html>

Child Labor and Labor Reform in American History
<http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/childlabor/>

Child Labor in New York City Tenements--A brief report of a 1908 investigation.
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/ctich/eastside/kleeck9.html

Child Labor: Victorian Web--A description of conditions in 19th century England
<http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/history/hist8.html>

Child Labour: Spartacus Educational--Includes biographies on both sides of the issue as well as primary sources and statistics relating to child labor in 19th-century Britain.
<http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm>

BBC World Service: Children of Conflict--From the British Broadcasting Corporation; sections about child soldiers, wounded children, lost children, child workers, and child-headed households, and ways to help; photographs, audio files, and text in various languages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/