Introduction:
I have found forms of child labor, including slavery and children, throughout American history. As manufacturing moved to farm workers and workshops at home and in urban areas to work in factories, and children often preferred, because factory owners looked more convenient and less expensive, and less likely It is hit. Causing increasing opposition to child labor in northern many factories to move to the south.
Before 1900, states vary widely as to whether they have conditions of child labor in its content and degree of implementation. At that time, Americans in a large number of child labor in mines and factories, glass, textiles, agriculture, industries and factories of artisan preserves, and as newsboys, messengers, shoe shiners, street vendors.
In the first decades of the twentieth century, culminating in the number of children working in the United States. Child labor began to decline with the growth of labor movements and labor standards reform and, in general, began to improve and increase the political power of the people who work and other social reformers calling for legislation regulating child labor.
Often intertwined Organize and reform of child labor, and carried out joint initiatives of the workers and consumer organizations middle class, and state associations of consumers' and women's associations working LED. I was born of these organizations the National Association of consumers in 1899, and the National Action Committee for Children in 1904, and the common objectives of the challenge of child labor, including through campaigns and anti-sweatshop marked programs has been collecting works council of the national labor child to end child labor with efforts to provide free and compulsory education for all children, which culminated in the adoption of standards fair work Act 1938, which sets federal standards for child labor.
Children have servants and apprentices in most of human history, which ends kids came new jobs during the industrial revolution. Often, children work long hours at the factory conditions of a threat to the very little money. Children were useful as labor because of their size allows them to move in small factories or mines in areas where adults can not fit, and children were easier to manage, monitor, and perhaps most importantly, children can be paid less than adults. Often, children work to help their families, but were forced to abandon their education.
Reformers of the nineteenth century and the work of the organizers have tried to restrict child labor and improve working conditions, but it is the collapse of the market to influence public opinion finally took. During the Great Depression,he wanted Americans to jobs available to go for adults and not children.
Near the role of child labor in the United States today is one of the most notable in the social and economic life of the state in the last two centuries changes. In colonial America, that child labor is not a subject of controversy. It was an integral part of the agricultural economy and crafts.
Children are not only successful on the family farm, but often rented to other farmers.
Usually children began their training in trade between the ages of ten and fourteen. Both types of child labor was reduced in the early nineteenth century, but the availability of factory workers a new opportunity for children. In the end, the place of young adults and immigrants of those children in the textile industry, but continued to child labor in other works. You can pay lower wages, which are more flexible and easier to handle than adults, and it was very difficult for unions to organize.
