SOAS China Institute Events
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The Problem of Discipline: ‘Shanghai’s Child Labor Problem,’ 1922-1925
Date: Monday 03 December 2018, 5pm
Speaker: Margaret Tillman (Purdue University)
Room: G3, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG
Abstract
How and why did children become important for government officials and social elites? Hugh Cunningham has noted that child labor and poverty became social problems along with urbanization because their visible plight drew the attention of elites. In Shanghai’s transnational International Settlement, Chinese and Western elites saw the effects of the city’s rapid industrialization on the urban working class, especially children. This seminar will examine efforts to abolish child labor, not only to benefit the working class, but also to modernize the Chinese economy by enforcing industrial discipline. While scholars have noted some of the political reasons for the failures of child labor legislation, this seminar will attempt to conclude by placing these efforts in a longer-term historical perspective regarding social welfare movements.
Biography
Margaret Mih Tillman graduated with a PhD in history from UC Berkeley and is currently an assistant professor at Purdue University. Her first book, Raising China's Revolutionaries was published by Columbia University Press in 2018.
Further details and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/seaeahistseminar/03dec2018-the-problem-of-discipline-shanghais-child-labor-problem-1922-1925.html
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