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This information makes me sad.. all those kids in hard labor.. w/o a childhood. Pitiful times and hardships for these children .. was wondering to myself.. if todays' kids could handle the demands and hardships put upon these kids..
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Child Labor in U.S. History http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/16/158925367/child-labor-in-america-1920
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So I was looking through an old Census report and I found a chapter entitled "Children in Gainful Occupations."
Turns out, about 1 million children age 10 to 15 were working in America in 1920 (out of a total population of 12 million kids in that age range). About half worked on family farms. The rest did everything else, working in factories, trained as apprentices, and served as messengers.
As late as 1940, the average American had only a ninth-grade education, and the first enduring, federal child-labor law wasn't passed until 1938.
Anyway, here are two graphics showing what a million kids did for work back in 1920.
Excerpt: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddler
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Child Labor in U.S. History http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/16/158925367/child-labor-in-america-1920
snip -
So I was looking through an old Census report and I found a chapter entitled "Children in Gainful Occupations."
Turns out, about 1 million children age 10 to 15 were working in America in 1920 (out of a total population of 12 million kids in that age range). About half worked on family farms. The rest did everything else, working in factories, trained as apprentices, and served as messengers.
As late as 1940, the average American had only a ninth-grade education, and the first enduring, federal child-labor law wasn't passed until 1938.
Anyway, here are two graphics showing what a million kids did for work back in 1920.
Excerpt: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. By then, American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddler