From Giovanni Pancari's Migration To America

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.

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.

There was also no set wages. They could pay them as little or as much as they wanted to. The Joads had a very similar situation that is complicated by the Great Depression. People took advantage of the fact that they were desperate for work by paying them pocket change.

The typical salary was $6 a week which doesn't add up to the work they did. A typical worker was expected to work sixteen hours daily six days a week, possibly hundred-hour work week. They suffered from severe skin conditions from work. Children and women also faced harsh working conditions where children were mostly under the age of sixteen and were paid less than ten cents a day for fourteen hour days of work. They helped support

This quote I found from an online article explains what kids went through during this harsh time. It almost sounds like they were slaves by how low they were getting paid. Most of us have never even heard of kids working late at nights doing jobs that today no one can possibly do because they have been replaced with machines from the dangers they carry. Children worked some of the most dangerous factory jobs that existed and they didn’t by choice. They had no choice but to work because either their family was poor or they were orphans.

The Italians had many different reasons for wanting to come to America, poverty being the biggest reason. Most Italian

Living conditions were poor, they had dirt floors and little to no furniture, most of them did not have a bed to sleep on. Sometimes slaves would work an eighteen hour day during harvest time. They worked from sunrise to sunset and were expected to do so almost everyday of the week. Women and men worked the same amount of hours and pregnant women were supposed to work the same until their child was born. After birth the mother still had to go to work the next day and had little or no time with her baby. Elderly women or women to feeble to work were in charge of taking care of the babies of the women who were working.

to work in factories. They used the children to work in the factories which in return made problems

Anyone worked from childhood till elder years. You needed the money back then. So you would have to go and work in the factories which was terrible. The children could not go and get an education, they had to work hard in the factories. When you were older, you worked until They usually worked anywhere from 5-16 hours a day working, depending on your age. Children had to work in the shops if they were poor which was most of the population. They also worked when they were very old. Most of the worker’s lives were dedicated to working in the shops which was very boring and miserable for them.

Child labor was widespread because they did not had have laws at that point. They were now hiring women and children because they got paid less about 0.50 to 1.50.Most of the time you would see the workers in small or unsafe working conditions. Due to all the the invention there needed to be more factory workers to make those products

Children were often forced to work in difficult conditions for long hours. They received little pay and were harshly disciplined. There were no restrictions on the age of workers or number of hours that could be worked.

In the early 1800’s education was only available to certain people. The people who could not go to school had no choice but to work for very low pay. Child labor started when factors were mostly ran by machines and not by man power. Some of the jobs include mines, glass factories, agriculture, home industries, newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers. The owners of the factors would pay children to run the machines because it was cheaper than paying adults. Child labor caused the children to have a very bad childhood. They could be like normal children because they had to work all day and could not go play outside with the neighborhood kids. In the early 1800’s only the wealthy children could go to school and the poor children would have to work in factories.

They had long working hours the shifts tended to be between 12-14 hours long at the minimum and extra time for busy periods, even with working these long strenuous hours they earned little to nothing, on average the men earned 15 shillings a week whereas women earned 7 and children earned 3 . They often employed more women and children as they were cheaper to pay. As well as getting children to work in factories they also had orphans from the workhouses who also worked 12 hour shifts and who in barracks attached to the factory by beds. The health conditions in factories were very low as well , for example cotton thread had to be spun in warm conditions and leaving the factory in the night would lead to some people contracting pneumonia due to the sudden change in temperature. Additionally, the air was full of dust which allowed some people to get chest and lung diseases and the loud sounds coming from the machines impaired people 's ability to hear properly.

Child labor was a staple during the Urbanization of the United States of America. Fresh out of a bloody Civil War that took the lives of at least 618,000. Child labor was very dangerous. Especially in the steel mills because of the lack of safety equipment. It was also very dangerous because the children laborers were very young for the jobs they were doing for such cheap pay. Anywhere between 12-16 years old. Since they were all very young they were not very strong. So due to them being weak, young, basically meeting no physical conditions to be able to work efficient the steel mill owners would take advantage of that. They saw cheap labor. Very cheap and easy labor.

People were willing to take any job no matter the pay, just as long as they were getting paid was all that mattered. As poor as the pay was, working conditions didn’t raise the bar. In many factories, the only light was that of the sun that would shine through the windows. Safety precautions were often unpresented or ignored, often not even being taken into consideration by wealthy owners. Accidents reoccurred often. It was most common for accidents to happen with children workers.