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Child Labor In The Early 1900s

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By the early 1900s many people were calling child labor “child slavery” and were demanding an end to it. Children were forced to work in order to support their families. Children as young as 9 years old worked poor conditions in textile factories and coal mining. Factory reformers called for the regulation of child labor. Many believed that working children were the successors of textile factories and could not run without them. B.L. Hutchins and A. Harrison, revealed that “children were probably exposed to worse conditions in textile factories than in other other industries” (Hutchins and Harrison, Factory Legislation, p. 140). Reformers saw that child labor had to be regulated in all forms of industry. The first effective Factory Act, passed
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