Child Labor By: Antonina S. Introduction Can you imagine a dad biting his son for not selling enough papers? Neglecting education to work? A 14 year old not even knowing his ABC’s? A child as young as 5 jumping on and off of moving trolleys to sell papers at different places? Children working in the worst conditions? No? Well guess what? It’s real‚ thanks to CHILD LABOR. A newspaper person talked to a boy selling papers‚ during their talk the child showed him the marks where his dad bit him for
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factories or mines where adults couldn’t fit‚ children were easier to manage and control and perhaps most importantly‚ children could be paid less than adults." - History staff In the 1800’s‚ Factories began to appear everywhere in the United States‚ because of machines that could now replace the majority of hand labor jobs for making most manufactured items‚ the factory owners also had new people to run their machines. Children were favored over adults to work on or with machines in factories‚ rather
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for an education‚ you’re working fifteen hour shifts in dangerous working conditions just to help support your family. This was the case in the 1800’s for children living in the United States. For years the glass-bottle industry had been taking advantage of children by having them work in terrible conditions. Some of the concerns surrounding child labor were the long hours‚ hazardous working conditions‚ and the strenuous work for a low wage. To begin with‚ the children were made to work long shifts
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to increased poverty levels. Advancement in these areas required an abundance of workers to run the expanding factories. Children were often preferred because they were seen as obedient‚ manageable‚ and less likely to strike. Because of this‚ child labor was very present issue and the conditions were often described as inhumane. A census taken in 1900 showed that 1.75 million children were working. Had the census included children that worked in mills‚ on the streets‚ and in factories the number would
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minimum wage for labor and a minimal requirements for school attendance. About 18 percent of the children were employed in the 1900s. In southern cotton mills twenty five percent of the employees were below the age of fifteen‚ and half of the children were below twelve. The committees pioneered the techniques of mass political action. Investigators by experts had a widespread of use of photograph to dramatize the poor conditions of children at work‚ pamphlets‚ leaflets‚
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work force. Problems such as inhumane working conditions‚ long hours‚ child labor‚ and low wages‚ were due for a long awaited change. In 1887 the Interstate Commerce Act was passed‚ with the goal to regulate railroads and prevent any monopolies. This was followed by the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890‚ workers compensation in 1902‚ and the formation of the National Child Labor Committee showcasing the horrors of child labor in 1904. Keating-Owen Act of 1916‚ Bunting vs Oregon and Muller vs Oregon in
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Child labor is the “full-time employment of children under a minimum legal age.” Child labor is an awful act that still happens around the world. However‚ in the United States child labor is mostly eradicated. It did not happen overnight but in fact took many years. There were many different laws and acts and committees that were created before there was no child labor. One of the earliest Child Labor Laws in the United States‚ was in Massachusetts. The act was passed in 1836 that regarded “the
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Child Labor law in 1833 which allowed children to work to get money to support their family. This was the cause of children’s misery. Child labor allowed children to work for 16 hours only to be paid less than 12 cents. Not to mention the kids and whoever was allowed to work had to work in dangerous conditions. Children had to work with deadly gas‚ machine not meant for kids but for adults. The worst thing was that they had to work without knowing what they were doing. The reasons of child labor was
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Child labor is affecting over 200 million children all over the world (Britannica) and many people are here to help. Before 1842‚ “children who worked in mines would be covered in toxic black coal dust and regularly died from malnutrition‚ overwork‚ and black lung disease”(Farrell). However‚ because of the Coal Mines Act of 1842‚ “women and children were banned from working in mines”(Farrell) which was a big step towards abolishing child labor. Acts and laws like this have been and need to be continuing
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Society of the 1800’s During the 1800’s there were three prominent cultures that could be found within Antebellum or Pre-Civil War America. These cultures include the North‚ South‚ and the Southern Black or Slave culture. These societies differed in many ways‚ some to an extreme degree. The Northern culture is the closest to the modern day America that we know as it was the most progressive culture. The Southern culture was extremely elitist and intolerant of social reform not benefiting the slave
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