Anti Child Labor In America

By the early 1900s people started to call child labor, “child slavery”. They want this slavery to end. They argue for kids to have the opportunity to be educated and have a better future. Their hours putting effort on this demand give results when they established in 1912 Children’s Bureau. (Documentation of Child Labor,

Children were also being made to work in jobs similar to the jobs adults were working in. Workers soon realized the unfair treatment and formed Labor Unions in order to reform their safety. As a result, workers were able to gain safety, less work hours and more pay. Labor Unions did not ruin the free market, instead they desired to improve the living and working conditions of the poor, the progressives stood in opposition to the wealthy who justified their actions through Social Darwinism, and by exploitation of Children.

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“If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.” Alexis Herman. The progressive era, spanning from the 1890s to the 1920s was a time where investigative journalism otherwise known as muckraking brought major issues to light, including child labor. Child labor, while not as prominent is the United States today, is still happening in our community on both a local and national level. This is due to loopholes in laws, as well as patterns of child labor created in the Progressive Era that despite its horrors, still continues today. Overall, child labor during the Progressive Era has created a destructive cycle that has been

During this period a lot of child were working to support their families at a young age. The modern teacher at the time thought that it was a “youth’s requirements for normal mental and muscular development” These educators acted as though industrial work did not harm children. While working child only spent a short amount in school, which is important. This shows that state laws on child labor were inadequate. A social reformer spoke about the crippling effects of child labor.(Doc C)

The first issue that was worked on by the Progressives was the topic of child labor. In the United States, many children were working in factories from the morning until the night. During these hours, they were not able to go home. They had no time to play outside like kids today are able to do. This did not help their health (Continue to Learn 2016). In 1890, about 18% of children between the ages of 10 and 15 worked. There

A huge issue that was happening during the Progressive Era was child labor; Lewis Hine was one of many brave investigative journalist that helped change legislation. Children would work long hours with horrible working conditions, get paid very little and were forced to forgo an education. Not only were they going through this, but the work they did had an long-term impact on their health. Child labor is terrible and it is still going on today. This topic needs to be brought up again so people can become more aware and informed about it.

Child Labor During The Progressive Era Before the extensive reforms in child labor during the Progressive Era, a substantial number of children were working with long hours and meager salaries, especially after the industrialization of factories. Due to the fact that business owners found many benefits in hiring children rather than adults, such as their smaller sizes and lower salary requirements, child labor was extremely widespread. The census of 1890 disclosed the fact that more than a million children, who ranged from the ages of 10-15, endured child labor. Children experienced many ailments such as heavy coal dust from working with coal and fumes from glasswork. Child Labor

Before the Progressive Era, many children drastically suffered. They worked long hours, in dangerous factories, for very low wages and missed out on important things, such as education. Child labor had been a long time problem and

Child labor was a big deal and parents have to worry about their child not starving. The food use to be sitting out. If you would it; you would most likely become sick. The kids didn’t get any free time because they were working Child labor law was passed so that only a limited age can work. They would also low pay them for working. In the article (A History Of Child Labor) it states “In the United States it took many years to outlaw child labor. By 1899, 28 states had passed laws regulating child labor. Many efforts were made to pass national child labor law. The U.S. Congress passed two laws, in 1918 and 1922, but the supreme Court declared both unconstitutional. In 1924, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the states did not ratify it.” Children coming home late is a problems because the crimes in the city.

The progressive era was a difficult time for a worker, conditions in the workplace were horrible and many of the perks that people in today’s workforce get such as maternity leave, sick leave, paid vacation, etc. did not exist during this time. Many progressives tried to improve working conditions during the 19th and 20th century especially for children and women who were the most vulnerable, weak and impressionable during this time. Progressives helped head a movement for laws that that restricted child labor in 38 states, yet this did not stop the child labor; most states just set a maximum ten-hour workday and set the minimum age for employment at 12 years old. About 60% of the child labor was in agriculture and this type of work was exempt from the child labor laws. These laws also did not address the overwhelming poverty and the lack of childcare that lead to child labor in the first

With the wave of immigration occuring in the years before the Gilded Age, many factories created jobs for all these new immigrants. However, as all of these jobs were for unskilled laborers that immigrated to the U.S., they didn’t pay extremely well, and led most of these workers into poverty. Sometimes, this poverty got so bad that even children of the family between ages 10 to 15 had to begin working for their families. Several problems arise when children of too young age are forced into working, especially when there are no laws correctly restricting the amount and extent of the work minors should be allowed to do. As seen in Document 3, Jane Addams paints the picture of child labor in in Chicago in 1912, in which only one child labor law existed, which only applied to children working in mines to protect them. Although this is great initiative, it does not accomplish much in other fields of work that minors were forced to work in. Because of the lack of child labor laws in other fields, Addams specifically describes a few children injured by a machine at a factory in Chicago. She continues to portray the point that

Throughout history, children have always worked, either as apprentices or servants. However, child labor reached a whole new scale during the time period of the Industrial Revolution. Throughout the time frame of late 1800s-early 1900s, children worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions for very little wages. They were considered useful as laborers because their small stature allowed them to be cramped into smaller spaces, and they could be paid less for their services. Many worked to help support their families, and by doing so, they forwent their education. Numerous nineteenth century reformers and labor groups sought to restrict child labor and to improve working conditions.

Throughout the 1700’s and the early 1800’s child labor was a major issue in American society. Children have always worked for family businesses whether it was an agricultural farming situation or working out of a family business in some type of workplace. This was usually seen in families of middle or lower class because extra help was needed to support the family. Child labor dramatically changed when America went through the Industrial Revolution. When America’s industrial revolution came into play, it opened a new world to child labor. Children were now needed to work in factories, mills, and mines. These were not ordinary jobs for young children, these jobs required much time, effort, and hard work. “American

Since the beginnings of industrialization in the United States, a struggle between the rights of individuals working in industry and manufacturing and the desire of the ownership of these endeavors to maximize profits has raged. As various eras in history passed, labor movements in the United States met with varying degrees of success. The fortunes of labor movements in the United States has ebbed and flowed along with other key factors in American society. In times when human rights and the rights of the individual were national priorities, the labor movement prospered, in times where businesses and profitability were the priority, the labor movement faltered.