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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on October 7, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):864-866; doi:10.1093/es/khp075
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Business History Conference]. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xii + 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4624-5, $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8014-7559-7, $24.95 (paper)

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This collection of essays invites readers to consider an important but neglected topic of American history: the binding-out system of child labor commonly practiced in North America from colonial settlement until the mid-nineteenth century. Distinct from slavery, indentured servitude, and traditional craft apprenticeship, the binding out of poor children to masters—known as "pauper apprenticeship"—represented a convergence of varying interests and purposes in early American communities. To begin with, pauper apprenticeship was a labor arrangement from which nearly every . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Marjorie E. Wood

University of Chicago


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