child labor

This picture displays during the Industrial

Revolution children working in the factories against there will on the machines.

                                     

Child Labor began in the Industrial Revolution , Children that were as young as the age of six years old worked hard amount of hours for little fees or no money at all.  Kids worked up to 19 hours a day with a break of one hour.  This was just extremely severe ,but it wasnt common for children who worked in the factories for 12 to 14 hours with the same little breaks.  Children also suffered horrible working conditions , conditions that was so severe body parts sometimes got decapitated if machines werent handle in a specific way.  The year of 1833 there was a turning point.  Children was only payed only a fraction of what the adults were payed.  Even sometimes they werent even payed.  Orphans would be the prime victims during the child labor struggles.  Children who were infact older than 16 worked more hours at night.  The machines in some ways were physically easier than picking cotton or whatever products that were demanded  .Picking cotton was infact easier because of the less physical damages of the children or the adults.If products werent made straight down to the core , some would be severly injured by whoms in charge.  Child Labor finally saw the light of extinction in the year of 1938 on june 25th , by Franklin D. Roosevelt.  FDR demanded to prohibit children employment in jobs under the age of 18 if working at jobs that are dangerous.


Information Source: http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

image soure:
http://webs.rps205.com/curriculum/ssandvoc/images/B1EC19324A4340638C4457E577997CC5.jpg