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Child Labor
1.Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution 2.
 * **Who**? Children living in idustrialized cities during the industrial revolution.
 * What? Children worked in factories for long hours and for very little pay.
 * When? this has been going on for a long time but specificly during the industrial revolution (1800s)
 * Where? The United States
 * Why? becuase children were cheap and easy labor and didnt require as much pay.
 * How? they forced children to work for less than $3 a week

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">3<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">. What I want to know
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">who? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">employeed the children to work in factories
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">what? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">did they get paid
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">where? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">were these factories
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">when? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">did they stop child labor
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">why? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">were parents letting this happen?
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">how? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">long did they work

<span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">4. My research strategy <span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Definition of Child Labor: ​<span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">the employment of children who are under the legal (or generally recongnised) minimum age.
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">who? <span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ill use Ms.Brem and Ms.Horn to help with finding information information.
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">what?<span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ill use the libaray data bases.
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">when? <span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">during or outside of class.
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">where? CTMS or at home.
 * <span style="color: #44c1c1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">how? <span style="color: #ff00ef; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ill use the internet and books.

**__Child Labor__**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Child Labor during the industrial revolution (1820) influenced child labor laws today. Child labor in the industrial revolution improved schooling and education for children in the future and protected children's rights today.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Children that worked in factories were denied their right to get an education. They couldn't go to school so they most likely didn't know how to read. Denying someone the right to education is denying them a right to have a good future. "The 1900 census showed that 2 million children were working. Many were engaged in mining and manufacturing. Roughly one in four workers in Southern cotton mills were below age 15, and many were below age 12." The idea that 2 million children were denied the right to an education is a scary thought. <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Children that worked in factories and farms were paid very little maybe $3 a week for working 16 hour days 6 days a week every week for the rest of their lives usually as often at ages as early as 4 years old. Children were taken advantege of for cheap hard labor.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Children were mangled and killed in factories and sometimes beaten for not showing up on time and for not doing work properly. They were sometimes run over by mine carts and killed by machienery usually left unguarded. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; msobidifontfamily: Verdana;">In glass making factories children would stand and work around hot furnaces for hours at a time. In coal factories they would handle coal with their bare hands and could result in getting black lung diesease. Being injured was not unlikly even being killed wasn't too unusal. Children were also punished for sleeping on the job, nor working fast enough, not being on time, talking to other workers, and many more things. The idea that these children are expected to work such long hours for such little pay and they can't even take a break. The punishments consist of beating, being dunked in water, having weights tied to them as they work. Punishments were tough and cruel compared to todays standards.

"As educational requirements became more stringent and truancy laws more strictly enforced, it became harder for companies to depend on child labor. Also demands within industry for a better skilled, more highly trained labor force inhibited the hiring of children. By 1920 child labor was in decline nationally." Since children were required to go to school they have no time to work and it would be illegal if they skipped school. "FDR passed the Fair Labor Standards Act on June 25, 1938. This law prohibited the employment of children under the age of 18 in manufacturing or other dangerous jobs, as well as all children under the age of 16. Although some people thought the law was too weak, the Supreme Court upheld it, becoming America's first federal law limiting child labor."

The industrial revoulution was a good and bad time; good for industry and the economy, but for children this was a bad time in America. Fighting child labor isn't completly over because in some parts of the children its not very inforced, but its pretty uncommon. In conclusion during the industrial revolution children were treated unfairly and cruelly with out any rights to an education,but eventually people saw that this treatment was wrong and did something to change it.

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