Child Labor Act 1919

Child labor was very common and popular especially in the late 1800s and early the 1900s even though many people were not aware of the dangers. We can define child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and cause to their physical and mental development. Children are the base of a country but in a developing country child labor is an issue that has yet to disappear. Most of the children remain illiterate because of their poor economic condition and parents do not have enough money to spend on the education of their children, rather they send their children for work so that they could earn some money during their poor economic condition. The objective of my research paper is to raise awareness

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

In 1900, children as young as nine years old were once expected to work sixteen hours a day in harsh conditions. They were useful because of their small size and the owners being able to pay low wages. Child labor laws exist because brave men, women, and children fought for these rights. The conditions of the children’s working environment caused Lewis Hine and the newsies to act upon it.

When one hears the term “Child Labor”, an image of children making low quality clothing in some dingy third world sweatshop inevitably comes to mind. While this imagery is unfortunately founded in fact, the third world is not the only area complicit with this heinous practice. Truthfully, we, as a nation are also guilty of propagating this heinous practice. For over a century, this nation’s youth were subjugated to exploitation and abuse at the hands of captains of industry in the hopes of extracting every ounce of profit they could. Fortunately, sympathetic individuals recognized the children’s need for advocacy and rose to their defense in the form of organized dissent that appealed to the highest powers of this country to fight for those who could not fight for themselves. In this paper, we will look at what exactly child labor is, the circumstances that gave rise to the widespread acceptance of child labor usage, what working condition these children experienced, and how the United States eventually made its use illegal.

Child labor has been around for quite sometime. The early 1900’s is when it started, and two laws were passed in 1918 and 1922 to allow child labor. People had kids working in coal mines, factories, etc. in the coal mines was one of the most frequent jobs for males.

Kids have it easy now days. Today children go to school for 7 hours then come home and do their homework. Children these days work for their own money around the age of 15. Common jobs include small errands for neighbors, babysitting, etc. The industrial revolution was a prime period for exploiting children.

Child labor was very common in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s in many places. Child labor usually took place in a factory working on a manufacturer line or doing as much physical labor as they could possibly do, being as young as they are. These kids who took part in child labor started some as early as the age of four or five, and then kept working until the day they died. Most of the time these kids has to work as much or sometimes more than even adults nowadays work. They would go to the factory while the sun comes up, work all day, and then go home at night to eat; and then wake up and do it all again the next day. These kids also were not working easy jobs, these jobs were very physical and hard labor. Also, the working conditions these kids worked in were not always as good as they needed to be. Sometimes they would even be put in situations where they could die any time of the day while at work. The wage for these kids were not to good either, some would get paid very, very little, and some would not get paid at all. Kids had no choice but to work and if they didn’t work they would not survive, therefore they would really work for any price. Which was usually a lot cheaper than any adult would work for.

In the beginning of 20th century, the industrialization was growing in America rapidly and so the need of labor to suffice that development. As a result, the industries were looking for a cheap labor which it comes from immigrants and child labor. However, the American business were abusing of children labor, using children under age, making them to work long hours without any safety. Many Americans start to get concern about this issue, and as reformers, the Progressives addressed the anti-child labor to restrict the employment of school-aged children.

Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution: Great Britain The Economic Impacts Throughout the Industrial Revolution, children played a pivotal part in economic growth of England, but they also played a pivotal part in the future of their ancestor’s wiliness to work. As history can tell us, in today’s society, both women and men are present in the work force.

My article was about a seventeen year old employee of Tempel Grain Elevators who worked in Colorado and was killed on the job. The young employee fell inside a bin full of grain and could not breathe leading to him suffocating. This was a very hazardous work environment and the safety violations should have been corrected before an injury occurred. However, the company was well aware of all the hazardous conditions and chose not to do anything.

Provisions of New York State Law Regarding Child Labor Current provisions of New York State employment laws have taken actions to protect the working conditions of children. These necessary actions should further prevent any mistreatment of child laborers from recurring, as it did at the time of the Industrial Revolution. The dire conditions under which many children were forced to work were hazardous to their health and emotional well-being. As early as the age of 5, children tended the machinery in factories and helped mine coal.

The first industrial revolution paved the way for new ideals, complex machinery, and scientific thought which helped to invent everyday items which we still use today. For hundreds of years, scientific thought has been used to create and restore inventions as well as plan for future ones. Its many aspects have helped to debunk theories thousands of years ago, and come up with new ones. These hundreds of theories have given the human race a reason as to why and how Earth has survived all of this time. This helps us to understand the many ways that we are able to adapt and incorporate new things into our lives. Another aspect of the industrial revolutions is the child labor and work laws. These laws were put in place to protect our children,

According to an article on the Bloomberg Business website titled Hershey Investors Suing Over Child Labor Can Pursue Files, a Louisiana pension fund investors raised questions about Hershey executives’ knowledge of how much of the company’s cocoa, grown in West Africa may have been produced by using child labor. The article details the dilemma this created for the Hershey Co. which was sparred by the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System investors, who holds Hershey shares, sued last year seeking access to the company’s records regarding cocoa acquisitions from West African suppliers who did not comply with international child-labor restrictions, and as Feely (2014) states “The fund contends Hershey officials put the candy company’s reputation at risk by relying on supplies produced by cocoa farms in West African countries that flout child-labor laws”(Feeley, 2014). Consequently, Hershey Company have been served with a lawsuit by the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System investors seeking to force the company to turn over records about cocoa from African farms that may use illegal child labor.

Rafael is a young boy at the age 7 who works in the mines. As he separates the coal from the rocks, he has blood coming out of one finger and blood dripping out from another. He inhales black coal dust and when he coughs, all you see is a big black cloud of dust. He walks home hoping that one day there would be someone who would help him and the other workers. Later that day he was informed about the progressives. As a progressive, I have decided to give $600,000 to child labor, $300,000 to food safety, and $100,000 to woman's suffrage.

On December 11, 1992, India endorsed the Convention on the Rights of the Child but did not agree to one clause that declared children, fourteen years of age and younger, to be protected by the law to not engage in hazardous working conditions. The convention was open for ratification in 1898 and mapped out basic necessary rights for children under the age of eighteen. These are a few of the rights India ratified: the right to education, the right to information, the right to nutrition, the right to health and care, the right to protection from abuse, the right to protection from exploitation, the right to development, and the right to survival. India has also created a law in 2006 that banned the use of child labor for domestic purposes and in the hospitality industry (Clifford, 2011).