Is child labor a thing of the past? I wish I could tell you that was the case. Tragically, it’s not. The annual list from the US Department of Labor reveals that 168 million children are still at work. 85 million are engaged in hazardous industries and jobs. One of the many people who joined the fight against child labor, Florence Kelley, a social worker and reformer, who fought successfully for child labor laws, delivered a speech at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1905. Kelley uses emotional appeals and imagery to convey the hardships these young children had to endure. Kelley elaborates on these injustices through her use of parallelism expressed throughout the nation. Florence Kelly appeals to the consciences