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    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

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    do not have access to childcare, and additional money is beneficial for acquiring basic needs. Despite the existence of laws and regulations that protect children from child labor, more strict enforcement of laws is required, since child labor not only exploits children, but also has a detrimental effect on health, education and the people of the nation. Currently, there are laws and regulations that protect children from working in dangerous jobs at a young age. As per the Fair Labor Standards Act

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    The Progressive Movement

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    industry or John D. Rockefeller’s oil industry. These industrialists, many times referred to as robber barons, were known for exploiting these workers for their labor seeing as there was little to no laws at this time against doing so. The Progressive Movement aimed to fix this issue with new labor laws to eliminate this misuse of the workers in these factories, oil mines, railroads, etc. by changing the designated amount of hours that people were allowed to work, the minimum wage that workers could

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    Child Labor Lost

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    A Labor Of Lost Innocence Did you know that child labor does more than deprive children of their education and mental and physical development,their childhood is stolen? Child labor is the use of children in the industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhuman. Here’s a fun fact I bet you didn’t know that children who participates in the labor force is endlessly varied and responding to changing social conditions. This is exactly why child labor should not be legal. Child labor

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    and ironic diction to arouse within the audience a sympathetic response to want the children removed from their harmful situations along with the logical response of wanting to repeal the laws associated with allowing children in damaging manufacturing industries. Kelley employs several examples of different laws in different states allowing children to work long hours at young ages. One example given describes even the lack of restrictions on child labor whatsoever. “In Georgia there is no restriction

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    Florence Kelley uses devices, such as appeal to emotion, and repetition while expressing her views to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Kelley’s use of rhetorical devices conveys her message about child labor to her audience. Kelley uses appeal to pathos, or appeal to emotion to get her audience’s feelings included in her speech. Kelley explains, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills… spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and

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    Woman Suffrage Association, she stresses the importance of changing child labor laws by appealing to her audience's emotions and ethics. She goes into detail describing the time of day and the type of work they are doing to emphasize her argument. The speech has a sense of urgency and is a clear call to action which form the tone of the piece. Florence Kelley uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to argue for labor law reforms. Kelley uses a passionate tone throughout her speech. Her use of exclamation

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    Child Workforce helps struggling parents with paying bills and earning a little extra cash for food or needs to survive. Child labor is a good thing because it helps families that need the money to get out of their debt and need it for everyday life. Children have been known for helping their parents by doing chores, small favors and in an out house work. Children work similar like parents and get paid by wages and by the hour, some people pay minimum wage and others pay what the job

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    Child Labour

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    CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR • Poverty • Parental illiteracy • Tradition of making children learn the family skills • Absence of universal compulsory Primary education • Social apathy and tolerance of child labour • Ignorance of the parents about the adverse consequences of Child labour • Ineffective enforcement of the legal provisions pertaining to child labour • Non-availability of and non-accessibility to schools • Irrelevant and non-attractive school curriculum • Employers prefer children as they constitute

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    considered hiring additional part-time workers, consequently the firm need to make a Human Resource (HR) decision, to decide when and should the company extend the benefits to part-time workers. Therefore, understanding what the Employment and Labor Laws prior to the offering of extended benefits to part-time employees should be the first place to start

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