paperboy
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thumb|upright|A paperboy for the Toronto Star in [[Whitby, Ontario, Canada, 1940]] A paperboy is someoneoften an older child or adolescentwho distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school. This contrasts with the newsboy or newspaper hawker, now extremely rare in Western nations, who would sell newspapers to passersby on the street, often with very vocal promotion.
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- female form of label
- livreuse de journaux
- ISCO-08 occupation class
- 9621
- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 9151
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- Newspaper delivery workers
- male form of label
- livrator de ziare
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thumb|upright|A paperboy for the Toronto Star in [[Whitby, Ontario, Canada, 1940]] A paperboy is someoneoften an older child or adolescentwho distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school. This contrasts with the newsboy or newspaper hawker, now extremely rare in Western nations, who would sell newspapers to passersby on the street, often with very vocal promotion. They were common when multiple daily papers in every cityas many as 50 in New York City alonecompeted.
==History== 150px|thumb|Paperboy license for boys under age 14 in 1970, when girls were not allowed to deliver newspapers in New York State