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How does society respond to challenges?
In the late 1800s and early 1900s kids were worked in harsh laboring jobs which had very little pay for hard working hours. Society worked together to make stricter child labor laws.

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Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32

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Breaker boys had a harsh job that they were not qualified for. The boys being young boys would be reckless and get hurt. They also got paid very little for their hard work.

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The job was meant to have an age minimum of 12 years of age, however because of poverty and desperation parents said the age of their boys to be more than their actual ones. The people in charge of the factories of course turned their head as they wanted cheap labor. Breaker boys broke up the coals into uniform sizes and removed any impurities from them.

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The Breaker itself was a very dangerous machine that if not handled right could get people killed easily. This was the case for a young boy named Mickey who fell into the Breaker and got his body chopped up with the coal, his mother turned crazy and waited for him everyday hoping to see her dead son. There was another case where a kid got his arm helplessly tangled in the Breaker and got killed by it. You would think that this would make the people in charge of these places realize their mistakes, however they did not make even the slightest of changes to make sure this never happened again.

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The breaker boys had to wake up at early morning and end work at around 6-6 thirty. This is a very late work day especially for how little they got paid. The Breaker was also a very loud machine that could have easily led the boys to have impaired hearing.

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https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/gildedage/content/breakerboys