The 1899 Newsboys Strike

Author : Nel Yomtov
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1666357839
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1899 Newsboys' Strike written by Nel Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2022 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, newsboys--or "newsies"--were a critical part of the newspaper industry. They bought stacks of papers from newspaper publishers and then sold them on city streets for a small profit. But in 1898, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World raised the cost of 100 papers by 10 cents. The price increase cut into the newsboys' profits, and by the summer of 1899 their frustration boiled over. They banded together and showed the world how activists of any age can use a strike to win against even the most rich and powerful.

Author : NEL. YOMTOV
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781666358025
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1899 NEWSBOYS STRIKE written by NEL. YOMTOV and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596430037
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kid Blink Beats the World written by Don Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons--and won--in the summer of 1899 is told in this fascinating picture book. Full color.

Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395888926
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids on Strike! written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.

Author : Ashley Varela
Publisher : Theme Park Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683901976
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsies Vs. the World written by Ashley Varela and published by Theme Park Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Strike to Show The newsies' strike of 1899 was the last successful child labor riot of the 19th century, but by the time the history books were scripted and printed, it was little more than a footnote. Newsies vs. The World takes a microscope to the events of the strike and its ongoing legacy in contemporary film and musical theatre. It explores the intense rivalry between publishing tycoons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, from their vicious circulation battle and the invention of "yellow journalism" to their involvement in the Spanish-American War and the ripple effects of that war on New York City's young newspaper hawkers. It also dives headfirst into the skirmishes of the 1899 strike, chronicling the events that inspired the newsboys and newsgirls to band together against Pulitzer and Hearst and detailing the stories of their various riots and rallies. Not only do readers get the full story of the children's boycott, but they also get the inside scoop on Disney's treatment of the movement. Despite a heartfelt performance from a teenage Christian Bale, the musical talents of Academy Award-winner Alan Menken, and director Kenny Ortega's ability to transform unknown child actors into a polished anthem-belting, tap-dancing company, Newsies (1992) was panned by critics and audiences alike. Driven by a massive cult following in the 1990s and early 2000s, however, its surprising resurgence as a breakout Broadway musical in 2012 took Disney-and the story of the 1899 newsies-to unprecedented heights, not only spawning a successful national tour but netting two Tony Awards as well. While Newsies (1992) and Newsies the Musical were imperfect and inadequate vehicles to capture such a complex historical moment, their indomitable spirit accomplished exactly what newsboy Kid Blink and the newsies of New York City set out to do: It turned their story into a headline, and in doing so, made the world know the newsies by name.

Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910774
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crying the News written by Vincent DiGirolamo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.

Author : Harvey Fierstein Alan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320518963
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsies written by Harvey Fierstein Alan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nel Yomtov
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1666357847
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1899 Newsboys' Strike written by Nel Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2022 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late 1800s, newsboys-or "newsies"-were a critical part of the newspaper industry. They bought stacks of papers from newspaper publishers and then sold them on city streets for a small profit. But in 1898, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World raised the cost of 100 papers by 10 cents. The price increase cut into the newsboys' profits, and by the summer of 1899 their frustration boiled over. They banded together and showed the world how activists of any age can use a strike to win against even the most rich and powerful"--

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602727
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Labor in America written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.

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Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1582610282
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Town, Big Time written by and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100th anniversary of the creation of Greater New York via consolidation of what had previously been dozens of separate communities. These are the greatest moment in New York City history, recreated from the news and picture files of the New York Daily News. From Typhoid Mary to the opening of Yankee Stadium to the unforgettable blackout, it's a time to remember. This 224 page book is a colorful panoply of politics, culture, crime, sports, etc.... The personalities, the events, the flow of time. The Daily News, for so long the eyes and the ears of the city, chronicles the past and brings it back to life in "Big Town Big Time!"