Information on Jack London and His Works
The Writings of Jack London
Child Labor in History
Child Labor Today

The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/index.html
This site includes a biography, documents, photographs, information for students and a web links.

Jack London
http://www.jack-london.de/main_e.htm
This English version of a German web site has comprehensive information on Jack London, his writing and his life.

Jack London, His Life and Books
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html
 

The Writings of Jack London
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/
Online texts of his books, short stories, essays, and news articles.

The Apostate
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/GodLaughs/apostate.html
This short story, first published in 1906, is a complete online text.

Child Labor in History

Child Labor in America
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
The photographs from labor reformer, Louis Hine, show the working conditions of children in the late 19^th century.

The Evolution of Childhood
http://www.northcoast.com/~child/history/found/p1x22.htm
This chapter from a psychology text shows how the concept of childhood has developed over time.

The History of Child Labor
http://www.earlham.edu/~pols/globalprobs/children/Laila.html
"Part of a site about Exploitation of Children in the Workplace, by a group of students at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. This page by Laila Shahrokhi, about the history of child labour in Britain and the US, is no more than a very short summary."

Child Labour in the 19^th Century
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
This is about child labor during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.

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

Child Labor in America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lesson98/labor/plan.html
A lesson from the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress.

Evidence Given Before the Sadler Commitee
http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/#sadler
Evidence to Parliament about textile workers in England.

Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
Students often want to know how much an amount of money would be worth in today's dollars.  This web site allows students to make those calculations.
 

UNICEF’s Child Labour Page
http://www.unicef.org/aclabor/explore.htm
Links to reports and web sites about child labor today.

Free the Children
http://freethechildren.org/
This organization was started by a Canadian student, Craig Keilburger, when he was only 13 years old. Since then Free the Children has become a major force influencing import laws and working to end child labor all over the world.

Child Labor in Pakistan
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.htm

International Child Labor Program
http://www.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/programs/iclp/

Teaching Children about Child Labor
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson025.shtml
This is a teaching kit from UNICEF.