At what ages does the law in your state permit boys and girls to go to work?  Show how this restriction of freedom now increases freedom later on.

READINGS

In Lessons in Community and National Life: 

Series A:  Lesson 3, The cooperation of specialists in modern society. 
           Lesson 5, The human resources of a community. 
           Lesson 7, Organization. 
           Lesson 8, The rise of machine industry. 
           Lesson 9, Social control. 
           Lesson 10, Indirect costs. 
           Lesson 11, Education as encouraged by industry. 
           Lesson 23, The services of money. 
           Lesson 28, The worker in our society.

Series B:  Lesson 8, Finding a job. 
           Lesson 11, The work of women. 
           Lesson 28, Women in industry.

Series C:  Lesson 9, Inventions. 
           Lesson 11, The effects of machinery on rural life. 
           Lesson 21, Before coins were made. 
           Lesson 22, The minting of coins. 
           Lesson 23, Paper money. 
           Lesson 24, Money in the community and the home. 
           Lesson 29, Child labor.

In Long’s American Patriotic Prose: 

Frank A. Vanderlip, “Service Leads to Success,” pp. 347-348.

Charles M. Schwab, “Opportunity is Plentiful in America,” pp. 348- 350.

Tufts, The Real Business of Living, Chapters viii-x; xv-xxviii.

The following books relating to vocational life may be helpful and stimulating if available: 

Gowin and Wheatley, Occupations (Ginn & Co.).

Giles, Vocational Civics (Macmillan).

Gulick, The Efficient Life (Doubleday, Page & Co.).

Reid and others, Careers for the Coming Men (Saalfield Pub Co.,
Akron, Ohio).

Marden, Choosing a Career (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis).

Marden, Talks with Great Workers (Thos.  Y. Crowell).

Bok, Successward (Doubleday, Page & Co.).

Williams, How it Is Made, How it Is Done, How it Works (Thos. 
Nelson & Sons).

Fowler, Starting in Life (Little, Brown & Co.).

Parsons, Choosing a Vocation (Houghton Mifflin Co.).

Carnegie, The Empire of Business, (Doubleday Page & Co.).

CHAPTER XII

GOVERNMENT AS A MEANS OF COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE

GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

According to the census of 1910, somewhat more than 38 million of the 92 million people of our country at that time were engaged in “gainful occupations”; that is, in earning their living and that of the remaining 54 million people who were dependent upon them.  Of the 38 million, more than 13 1/2 million were producing wealth directly from the land, in agriculture, forest industries, mining industries, and fishing.  About 10 1/2 million were engaged in manufacturing and mechanical trades, by which the materials extracted from the land are transformed into articles of use.  The remainder of the “breadwinners” were engaged in trade and transportation, and in professional, personal, and public service.