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Edward Nicholas Clopper
1879–1953
A progressive-era reform writer, he is best remembered for exposing the harsh realities faced by working children in American cities. His books mix careful research with a strong sense that society owed children better protection and better chances.
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Child Labor in City Streets
by Edward Nicholas Clopper
About the author
Born in 1879 and dying in 1953, Edward Nicholas Clopper wrote about child welfare, labor, and social conditions in the United States during the early twentieth century. He is best known today for Child Labor in City Streets, a detailed study of children working as newsboys, messengers, peddlers, and in other street trades.
Clopper also wrote or contributed to works such as Children's Codes, Society and the Child, Child Welfare in Kentucky, and Facts of Porto Rican History for Grammar School Pupils. Taken together, these works show a writer deeply interested in how public policy, education, and everyday life shaped children's lives.
His writing belongs to the world of reform-era social investigation: practical, observant, and aimed at change rather than ornament. For listeners interested in history, public life, or the roots of modern child-labor reform, his work offers a vivid window into the moral debates of his time.