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Corey R

Child Labor in U.S. History - The Child Labor Education Project - 1 views

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  • Child Labor Reform and the U.S. Labor Movement
  • ne as the labor and reform movements grew and labor standards in general began improving, increasing the political power of working people and other social reformers to demand legislation regulating child labor. Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined, and common initiatives were conducted by organizations led by working women and middle class consumers, such as state Consumers’ Leagues and Working Women’s Societies. These organizations generated the National Consumers’ League in 1899 and the National Child Labor Committee in 1904, which shared goals of challenging child labor, including through anti-sweatshop campaigns and labeling programs. The National Child Labor Committee’s work to end child labor was combined with efforts to provide free, compulsory education for all children, and culminated in the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set federal standards for child labor.
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    child labor
Shardei S

Child labor | Article | World Book Student - 0 views

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  • Children worked for lower wages than
  • adults
  • Children worked for low pay in dirty, poorly lighted factories, mills, and mines.
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  • The law prohibited the employment of pauper children (children dependent on charity) under 9 years of age in cotton mills.
  • In 1802, the British Parliament
  • under 14
  • 1819, the law was extended to include all children. No real provision for enforcing these laws was made until 1833. Ger
  • could not work at night, and their workday was limited to 12 hours
  • 1836, Massachusetts p
  • assed the first state child labor law in the United States
  • law prohibited the employment of children under 15 in any factory unless the children had attended school for at least three months during the preceding year.
  • 1860, only a few states had outlawed factory employment of children under 10 or 12 years of age.
  • Enforcement of these laws proved difficult because of the large number of poor families and government reluctance to offend employers. By 1890, nearly 20 percent of U.S. children were employed full-time.
  • Shardei S on 26 Feb 13
     
    Good Article On Laws Of Child Labor
Mallory B

Child labor | Article | World Book Student - 0 views

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  • The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 helped to promote child labor reform
  • All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico now have child labor laws
Mallory B

Child labor in Factories During the Industrial Revolution - 0 views

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  • Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with a one-hour total break
  • Many accidents occurred injuring or killing children on the job.
  • Children were paid only a fraction of what an adult would get, and sometimes factory owners would get away with paying them nothing.
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  • The factory owners justified their absence of payroll by saying that they gave the orphans food, shelter, and clothing, all of which were far below par
  • The people who the children served would beat them, verbally abuse them, and take no consideration for their safety
  • were subject to beatings and other harsh forms of pain infliction
  • he children were to attend school for no less than two hours during the day.
  • Boys were sometimes dragged naked from their beds and sent to the factories only holding their clothes
  • Factory owners loved child labor, and they supported their reasoning with ideas that it was good for everything from the economy to the building of the children's characters
  • The first step to improving conditions was in 1833 with the Factory Act passed by Parliament
  • overseer would tie a heavy weight to worker's neck, and have them walk up and down the factory aisles so the other children could see them and "take example." This could last up to an hour.
  • said the government would appoint officials to make sure the act was carried out and complied with
  • In rural areas, children would have worked long hours with hard work for their families farms, but in the cities, the children worked longer hours with harder work for large companies. Harsher treatment, fewer rewards and more sickness and injury came from poorly regulated child labor.
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    child labor
  • Mallory B on 27 Feb 13
     
    Very good source of information on Child Labor.
Hailey E

temperance movement, prison reform, education reform, women's rights, labor reform Imag... - 3 views

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    Lots of good info. on all reforms ;)
Hailey E

About Child Labor - Child Labor - 2 views

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Chris H

Robert Owen, 1771-1858 - 0 views

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  • Robert Owen
  • His father was a sadler and ironmonger
  • At the age of ten he was sent to seek his fortune in London with his eldest brother, William.
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  • Owen found a position in a large drapery business in Stamford (Lincolnshire)
  • Owen attended the local school
  • strong passion for reading
  • Owen's partners did not share his enthusiasm for education and welfare:
  • Breaking with these labor movements in 1834, Owen turned back to his plan for a community and founded a journal, The New Moral World
  • Association of All Classes of All Nations
Nikita P

Internet History Sourcebooks - 2 views

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  • most prevailing incentive to labor was to secure the means of education for some male member of the family. To make a gentleman of a brother or a son, to give him a college education, was the dominant thought in the minds of a great many of the better class of mill­girls.
  • get the
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Jon A

Timelines - 1 views

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