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Children are little and nimble. They have small hands and are capable of getting their hands to work with machinery. Since they are more able-bodied then older adults they were preferred by employers.

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Most kids were also illiterate so they could trick the children into signing unfair contracts. And since they were so young they were payed much less.

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-Low wages
-Unsanitary environments
-Dangerous situations
ex. Large machinery, gasses, dust, injury et cetera
- Long hours, 10-14 hour shifts

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Parents, especially immigrants, needed the extra income that their children brought in to survive. Even the low wage they received could have been the difference between life and death.

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The National Child Labor Committee advocated for an end to child labor for many years and even sent a photographer for over decades to photograph the children. Laws restricting labor were passed but not laws that eliminated it all together.

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Child Labor did not come to an end until the Great Depression. Since there were so many unemployed adults, people advocated to end child labor so that the adults could get jobs instead. This caused a major decrease in labor. Machines that children operated were also replaced with new mechanical ones which made the job no longer necessary.

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- Restricted labor
-Children under 16 were not allowed to work
- FLSA of 1938 were enacted to make sure that labor did not get in the way of education and health