TUrning point in history
Child labor was a TURNING POINT because it was a wide-reaching change in America, changing how society had children as young as three working.
It was a CHEAP LABOR for it brought a transformation in the working industry. They were no longer innocent and pure they became workers at such an early age.
Child labor was a TURNING POINT to the Industrial Revolution, poverty, and the lack of opportunities children had.
It was a CHEAP LABOR for it brought a transformation in the working industry. They were no longer innocent and pure they became workers at such an early age.
Child labor was a TURNING POINT to the Industrial Revolution, poverty, and the lack of opportunities children had.
Timeline
· 1836- Early trade unions proposed state minimum age laws.
· 1836 -Massachusetts had first child labor law.
· 1842- States begin limiting children’s work days.
· 1876- Labor movement urges minimum age law to be 14.
· 1881 – The American Federation of Labor supported state minimum age laws.
· 1904- National Child Labor Committee forms.
· 1924- First attempt to gain federal regulation fails.
· 1937- Second attempt for federal regulations fail.
· 1938– Federal law regulates child’s employment.
· 1836 -Massachusetts had first child labor law.
· 1842- States begin limiting children’s work days.
· 1876- Labor movement urges minimum age law to be 14.
· 1881 – The American Federation of Labor supported state minimum age laws.
· 1904- National Child Labor Committee forms.
· 1924- First attempt to gain federal regulation fails.
· 1937- Second attempt for federal regulations fail.
· 1938– Federal law regulates child’s employment.
Quotes
“We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.”
-Carol Bellamy
-Carol Bellamy
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”
- Grace Abbott
- Grace Abbott
“There is work that profits children and there is work that brings profits only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”
- Lewis W. Hine
- Lewis W. Hine
One of the leading causes was poverty. Most families needed a way to support themselves, so they turned to child labor.
Without an education opportunity,
children started working at an earlier age.
children started working at an earlier age.
Child labor deprived a child from a
childhood and an education.
childhood and an education.
When the industrial revolution began,
many factory owners needed cheap labor.
They thought children were more
manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike.
many factory owners needed cheap labor.
They thought children were more
manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike.
Children are abused both physically
and mentally. The conditions they
worked in were hazardous and could
lead to injuries.
and mentally. The conditions they
worked in were hazardous and could
lead to injuries.
It also created more poverty, which
ironically was one of the causes.
ironically was one of the causes.
No little girl should be forced to work so she can support her family. She should be at home playing with her dolls.
This boy should be outside playing football with the neighborhood kids but instead he’s inside risking his life working.
Child labor is work done by a person under the age specified by the law. Work is defined as full time commercial work to sustain self and family. It is a hazard to a
child’s mental, physical, social, educational, and emotional well-being. Child labor has happened
everywhere even in America. It has forced millions of children out of school
and into work.