Child Labor Should Not Be Allowed In Washing Factories

During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s child labor was a social issue that developed in the United States. In the early 1900’s, so many children ages 16 and under were working in American mine and factories. Our kids should not be forced to work at such an early age, they need education and a good childhood that they will always remember. Some children that are as young as 4 years old are being forced to work in crammed, dangerous factories. These factories are full of poisonous fumes and diseases that can obviously kill. Kids as young as 13 are being forced to work around 13 hours a day. Working these 13 hours is exactly what most adults are working at the time. Kids are also earning a lower wage since they are minors, employers

But we should not buy products made with child labor because if the employers overseas see that no products made by them is being bought and the reason why is because the children are not getting paid enough they could raise the pay to at least 3 dollars a day instead of 1 dollar a day so that the family can actually have enough money to live. If the employers are making a lot more money than the children then it wouldn't hurt then to raise their pay a dollar or

Child labor is a serious problem that affects children from third-world countries all over the world. These children are exploited by multinational corporations ,for their cheap labor all over the world. People, then buy products that come at a cheaper price, from these multinational corporations.These children are often overworked and treated unfairly. People need to stop buying items from countries that endorse child labor.

The children should be going to school so that they do not have to work in a sweatshop for the rest of their time on earth. They should go to school and make something out of their self. One other quote from a person against child labor read, “Families would not send their children to work if they didn't have to. If wages were better, children could have a childhood.” Raise the pay, not just for the workers, but for their families and children. Innocent children don’t need to be working, they should have no worries or cares. They should be out having a fun

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.

It is estimated that one in six of the world’s children are working in unacceptable conditions and that's about 180 million children worldwide (Kilcullen 218). That is a great deal of children that are exposed to harm or exploitation. The opposing side believes that these poor countries need child labor to survive, that it is alright to pay children low wages for the work they do, and do not believe that schooling is as important as work. By regulating child labor laws, governments would be able to enforce safer working conditions, increase wages to meet the cost of living, and mandate education for better opportunities even though the opposing side disputes these reasons and stance.

Many may think of children’s rights violations occurring in the poor, war-torn countries of the world, children in the United States suffer from certain encroachments on their rights as well.also children in the United States working on farms are unprotected from the danger of using dangerous tools and machinery, as well as many other dangers of working on farms.

Business owners never thought that children should have a good education than work at these factories because these factories are actually making them deformed. Proof from document seven says that Elizabeth Bentley’s health changed since she had worked at the factory. “Yes, I was . . . a little [healthy] girl [before I started working at the factory]” (Document #7). This is the downside for working at these places. Even though the factory was producing a lot of product, but at the same time they are turning perfectly normal people into mentally retarded people. Furthermore, this isn’t the only cons about these factories. These factories are making these people work more than an average person would work in the twenty-first century. “[They would work] [f]rom six in the morning till 7 at night” (Document #7). These children are working fourteen hours. A normal person would only work eight hours today. Not only that they get worked to death, they weren’t given much breaks. “Forty minutes at noon [time was given for a break]” (Document #7). Working this long these children should be rewarded with a longer break. See the people who believe that getting short breaks is good; well they are wrong because if you do the same thing over and over it gets boring. Also, your brain will get fried. Case in point, child labor is a torturing practice that needs to get abolished because the working

Child labor during the industrial revolution was wrong. It shouldn’t have been done to that extent. You may look at it as ‘they’re getting paid what’s the problem?’ Nevertheless, they are getting paid extremely small amounts. Children back in those times struggled to earn money for their family. It’s not fair children are put in these positions were they have to work so hard to help support for their family. They shouldn’t have to worry every night about when their next meal will be, or how they are going to come up with the money for their house so they don’t have to live on the streets. It would help they got paid a more reasonable price for their work. "She sews on 36 buttons to earn 4 cents." (The Story of My Cotton Dress, paragraph 18.) This quote just goes to show how

“Each year, as many as 2.7 million healthy years of life are lost due to child labor.” Imagine that you are being held as a slave and forced to do dangerous labor as a child. Countless people are being held captive and are being forced to do perilous things, sweating their lives away, not taking breaks, and being put in adult like situations. In fact right now there are “15-20 million children working as slaves.” Although it provides children and families with money, and possibly something to learn from, adolescents should not be enslaved or forced to do labor because it is very dangerous and can damage a minor for the rest of their life.

In my opinion all of those acts should be opposed because no children should be working at all until they turn 18. The working conditions were terrible at the factories, especially for children. Factories were very dangerous to work at. Large and heavy equipment, machines that are spitting out smoke and dangerous facilities resulting in injuries and death were not the best place to work at. Children were paid less than 10 cents an hour and sometimes the factory owners would get away with not paying them at all. Children before 18 should be focusing on their education and not the factory jobs. Although the Factory Act made it much easier for children to work and it considered some of the children’s rights but children of that age shouldn’t be working 9-12 hours a day on such hard jobs for almost no

In the early 1900’s many young children had to work in factories and mills to help provide for their families. These children often died due to exhaustion and malnutrition. I do not feel that children were an acceptable source of labor, but I think I can understand why some kids had to work and why some employers would hire them. Some families may have not been able to afford to send their children to school because the money their kids made from working was important part of their families income. It probably would have been a hard decision for parents to send their children to work because they knew the bad work conditions of factories and mills. Employers would have hired children because they did have to pay them as much as adults at the

Child labor has been an issue we Americans have tolerated with for an extended period of time; longer than we should have. At the time of Kelley presenting her speech, July 22 1905, she stated we had “two million children under the age of sixteen years” who were part of the working class. This statistic illustrates our dire need to decrease and stop the use of children as workers in dangerous places like factories. Kelley states these children are as young as “six and seven” to “sixteen;” which only helps emphasize her point that young children, our futures, do not need to be put in these situations. She helps proves this throughout ter speech by appealing to our emotional, and logical aspects and then also establishing and presenting her credibility.

Many people tried all sorts of methods to prohibit child labor. I am glad that child labor is banned because many children suffered injuries and long hours in the factories. I could understand them in their perspective. However, not many understand the families’ perspective. Their children were their source of income. They only survived with the money their child earned. People shouldn’t just ban child labor, and forget about the indigent families. The cause of child labor was the fact that families were poor. If it weren’t for money, people would rather send their children to school. To help both the family and the children, people could have offered more

In the past, women and men fought for the children of America to liberate them of the burden of harsh work and give them their childhood back. Although we want to believe that child labor is now history, child labor is still significant in our time, all around the world. Today the number of children, ages 5-14, working around the world are estimated to be increasing. Children are constantly working in dangerous working environments that cost them their lives or hamper their ability them to have a basic normal childhood that children have in America. These children miss the opportunity to run and play with friends, have friends their own age, to explore the world around them that they live in every day, have the opportunities to go to school to learn about the world they live in, and expand their imagination. Instead children in some part of world are going to mines and sweatshops to work instead of to school. They are working in dangerous places instead of playing with kids their own ages, and we in America are helping with the growth of child labor.