STOLEN CHILDHOODS

Stolen Childhoods fits into a wider historical context of visual images intended to publicize and marshal sympathy for the plight of the poverty-stricken.

Often, these images depict children forced to work under dangerous and inappropriate conditions.  Viewers of these images see children forced to sacrifice their health for starvation wages.

The work of several Farm Security Administration photographers during The Great Depression of the 1930s revealed the plight of many families forced to work in desperate circumstances. 

RESOURCES

Globalization: Implementing Social Change Around the World
                   Dr. James Midgley Dean, School of Social Work, UC Berkeley

Dr. James Midgley, whose accomplishments in international social work are without parallel, will be with us all day on April 20th as a guest of the Dept. of Social Work and the TLC. He will present the lecture / discussion “Globalization: Implementing Social Change Around the World” on April 20th at 4:00pm in the Rosenthal Choir Room.

• Here’s a link to his web page:

• Here is a link to his Power Point Presentation

The Library has acquired an amazing resource: a keyword searchable electronic database with photographic images of the pages of virtually everything that was published in economics, politics, commerce and geography from about 1450-1850 in most of the languages of Europe (including all the various editions, translations, etc. etc.). This includes pretty much every book, pamphlet, journal, announcement, etc. that was published over four centuries

This is an incredibly powerful research tool that can be used both to enhance faculty research and teaching in every field that has historical roots.

You can access this database under MOME at:

http://library.uncfsu.edu/databases/alpha_results.asp?view=M