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What working conditions were like for children in the industrial revolution.

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What working conditions were like for children in the industrial revolution.

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Children often had to work under very dangerous conditions. They lost limbs or fingers working on high powered machinery with little training. They worked in mines with bad ventilation and developed lung diseases.

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Children who worked at an early age were often not forced; but did so because they needed to help their family survive financially. Due to poor employment opportunities for many parents, sending their children to work on farms and in factories was a way to help feed and support the family.

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What types of child labor laws developed. 

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What types of child labor laws developed. 

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In 1924, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the states did not ratify it. Then, in 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Image:Different Child Laws were later implemented.

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When child labor laws began to develop and why.  

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When child labor laws began to develop and why.  

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Nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers sought to restrict child labor and improve working conditions, but it took a market crash to finally sway public opinion

Image: Child Labor Laws.

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Children went to work at a young age because they had to support their families. Many of them were too  poor to be sent to school.

Image:Children working to support family.

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Why employers would want to hire children pt2

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Why employers would want to hire children pt2

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children were easier to manage and control and perhaps most importantly, children could be paid less than adults

Image:Children being taught how to work by adults

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Why employers would want to hire children

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Why employers would want to hire children

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Children were useful in labor because their size allowed them to move in small spaces in factories or mines where adults couldn't

Image:Many Children were taught what adults weren't able to do.

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What working conditions were like for children in the Industrial revolution

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What working conditions were like for children in the Industrial revolution

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Children often worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions for very little money. Many children had physical deformities because of lack of sunlight and exercise.

Image:Many work hours later caused deformities.