Dbq Child Labour In The Late 1800s

Child Labor Imagine you wake up and you have to walk all the way to work a couple of miles to work, then you have to work eleven to twelve hours a day, six days a week, and every day you have an easy risk of dying or getting your fingers chopped off. That is what children had to do from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Children were put through many hard jobs, such as using dangerous machinery. Children had to go through extremely hard labor. They worked long hard hours, six days a week. This took place in big industrial cities such as New York in factories. Many kids were killed or badly hurt in bad machines and other things. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, many kids were hurt doing dangerous jobs. People tried to help with this and

Doc.2 says, “Boys began working as doffers when they were seven or younger” (Doc. 2). The adage of the adage. It could have been easier for a little kid to get stuck or caught in a machine. The accident rate for children was twice as high as it was for adults. The conditions were also very intense, doc. 4. “The temperature in the glass factories ranged between 100 and 130 degrees” (Doc. 4. The adage of the adage. One twelve year old girl had to work eleven and a half hours a day in hard conditions. Kids had to work through troublesome jobs for six days a week, (people today only have to work five days a week now) and kids were at high risk of getting hurt or even killed because of their very young age. According to one website, “Some children have to operate unsafe machinery, equipment, and tools, or be required to lift heavy loads and be exposed to hazardous substances, agents, or processes, or to temperatures, noise levels, or vibrations that can cause serious damage to their health” (https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu). Kids have a hard life, especially in the

“Mother” Mary Jones gave lectures on the hazards of child labor. She also gave lectures on the conditions of the hospital too. The document claims that “ Mother” Mary Jones was against child labor. “She also organized and encouraged children and adults to strike” (Doc. 6. The aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid aforesaid afores Samuel Gompers tried to persuade the U.S. Congress to let kids go to school. Gompers also worked for five years, which required school attendance. In one document it says, “From 1881 to 1886, Gompers worked for laws that required school attendance, made children go to school, and regulated child labor and the eight-hour day” (Doc. 5. The adage of the adage. A source says that, “1938: The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act restricted hours and types of jobs for individuals under age 16” (https://www.worldvision.org). Many people tried their hardest to help our fellow children not to get