National Child Labour Photographer

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 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.

I believe that the intended audience will be the entire society, since I think the authors want to spread the reality about the child labor through publishing the primary sources. In these primary sources, the authors recorded the child labor require to work overtime in the coal pits, such as Mr. Payne states that the child’s work occupies from six to seven hours per day. According to the author, Ann Eggley, she states that usually they just have an hour break for having dinner, sometimes they haven’t the time to eat,

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

“The International Labor Organization estimates that at least 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working, mostly in the developing world.” Many Americans view child labor as wrong or dangerous, but they do not realize how essential child labor can be in developing countries. In the article “Regulated Child Labor Is Necessary in Developing Countries,” by John Tierney, a current author for the New York Times, focuses on child labor and why it is essential in some developing countries. Tierney creates a sympathetic tone for the readers to try and understand the struggles regarding child labor in developing countries.

In document E there is images of children working in factories both girls and boys. Children were expected to work under the same conditions as adults. Children had to deal with machines and factories. Child labor population started to grow because the need of help of children in factories made all families involve children into working. Children had to sacrifice their own lives into something they didn't belong to but they still did it to help out their families. This was one of the family worst decision to send children into working because children were working under the same condition as an adult and they did not have any protection. In document F it also shows an image of how unions started to do organizations for workers and children rights. There was 3 unions formed, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and Industrial Workers if the World. The organizations were meant to help out the workers, women, and children. These organizations started using both boycotts and strikes as strategies to achieve their goal . Their main goals were to give workers eight hours of workday, increase wages, improve working conditions, and put an end to child labor. This topic relates to my next topic because workers and their families were mainly struggling for their low

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.

Since capitalism has existed, children have been able to work. These children have worked in the harshest conditions and the longest hours. With thousands of children working in the United States, social worker Florence Kelley decided something needed to be done about it. So on July 22, 1905, she delivered a speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), analyzing, and explaining the problems with children in the workplace. She uses the rhetorical strategy, cause and effect, to exemplify the pros and cons of child labor at the time. Kelley later explains how her thoughts can reflect on the future of child labor in the United States.

In the United States it took a good amount of years to outlaw child labor. In the photograph (Document D), it shows young child workers for the mines. This picture taken by Lewis Hine, who quit his job as a school teacher to take pictures of child workers around the country to bring awareness to the fact that child labor was not right. These pictures started to get people thinking about how wrong this was, then reform was attempted. 28 states passed laws regulating child labor by the year 1899.

Kelley begins her persuasion by reiterating the idea of children working “while we sleep” as a way to reveal the horrendous situation the public refuses to correct. Thousands of youths, with ages ranging from six to ten, begin to work as soon as they are tall enough to reach the bobbins, laboring away in unsafe conditions when they should have been in school getting a much-needed education. A regular occurrence for a working youngster would consist of a twelve to fourteen hour day with a one-hour total break for little or no pay. Occasionally, they toiled nineteen hard hours a day and were given the same minimal breaks; though this was a little bit extreme, it was not uncommon for the children who worked in factories. While operating in these unsanitary and hazardous conditions, the young children were more than likely to suffer injuries and illnesses. They

Although this treatment seems inhumane from the perspective of child laborers, factory owners biasedly insisted that children were better off working at factories than staying home. Factory owner Andrew Ure asseverated that he never witnessed any corporal abuse of children (Document 3). He asserted that child laborers showed no traces of exhaustion upon exiting the mills at night (Document 3), making him strongly believe that children thrive better in factories than at home (Document

In 1815, the British Parliament sent out researchers to interview child workers and learn more about factory conditions. Factory owners often preferred to hire women and children because men expected higher wages. Children were hire to work in Great Britain’s coalmines. There was soon some reforms for child workers and a proposed law to limit their workday to 10 hours. In the end, there were connections among child labor, factory conditions, and attitudes about capitalism, reactions to capitalism and the rise of labor movements.

During 1848-1920, the Women’s Suffrage Movement took place. Throughout this movement, women protested to win their rights. Florence Kelley, an American Social Worker and Reformer, fought for women’s suffrage and child labor law reformation. Along with the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Second Industrial Revolution was also taking place. As a result, there was high demand for workers. The target laborers were children. Kelley utilizes her speech to convey an important message to America - that it is inhumane to allow children under sixteen years of age to work under such harsh conditions. In order to resolve the issue, Kelley insists that child labor laws be reformed. This exploitation of children is addressed in Kelley’s speech.

During the 18 and beginning of the 19th century in certain regions of the U.S child labor made up more than 40 percent of the population (Wolensky). That’s almost half of the working population. Since the beginning of time children have always been known to help their families with domestic tasks. Most of these kids worked in factories because they were easy to control and paid less than adults. Kids earned less than half of what adults made in the work force. In these factories they usually cleaned under and inside machines while functioning because of their small size.. That’s how these kids felt as it was described in a article in our history book. They were always in danger of getting hurt or even dying, which many did. Kids as young

In the article “Little Girl in 1908 Child Labor Photos Identified” there was a lot of information about a haunted photograph about a girl working during child labor, and in another article I read “Child labor”, it also discussed about child labor. In the article “Little Girl in 1908 Child Labor Photos Identified” it discussed about a haunted photograph of a girl who was working in factories during child labor. In another article “Child labor” it discussed about how children worked during child labor and how people helped to stopped child labor. These two articles had many similarities and differences between them. Both articles presented two views to consider about, child labor.