Mother Jones was a great fighter for children’s working rights. Judith Pinkerton Josephson states “Though she had not met with the president, Mother Jones had drawn the attention of the nation to the problem of child labor. She became even more of a national figure.” Mother Jones had a huge impact on the issue of child labor and she helped children gain better education instead of working in factories, mines, mill, etc. If Mother Jones didn’t stand up for children I don’t believe that we would be receiving a proper education. According …show more content…
The Cesar Chavez Foundation stated “8The first union contracts requiring rest periods, toilets in the fields, clean drinking water, hand washing facilities, banning discrimination in employment and sexual harassment of women workers, requiring protective clothing against pesticide exposure, prohibiting pesticide spraying while workers are in the fields and outlawing DDT and other dangerous pesticides (years before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acted).” Cesar Chavez helped make sure that migrant farm workers felt like their job was just as important as other people’s job and made sure that they were safe. Chavez also helped change the way migrant farmers worked and the efficiency that farmers get work done at. “Throughout his youth and into adulthood, Cesar traveled the migrant streams throughout California laboring in the fields, orchards and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.” Cesar helped make changes to migrant farmers working rights because he had to face the hardships through his life that other farmers were facing. He didn’t get as much do as he would if he had the proper rest and wasn’t overworked. Cesar Chavez helped many farmers have a better