Conceiving Poverty and Child Labor in late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century New York City and the Nation

Students, in groups, will be assigned one of six perspectives on the issue of Conceiving Poverty and Child Labor in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. This 'role playing' and 'interactive classroom game' will allow political science students to think about different pre-New Deal and pre-Great Society historical approaches to conceiving poverty and child labor. In post-New Deal and post-Great Society United States we principally look to government programs--TANF and other government programs--to address issues of poverty and engage labor regulatory controls. This "game" asks students to read brief--actual historical--approaches from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in New York City.