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This is a boy named Harley Bruce, who appears to be around 12-14 years old. He has been working at Indian Mine for a about a year and claims the work to be hard and dangerous. This picture took place near Jellico, Tenn., in December of 1910.

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This picture took place in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, GA. There were many boys and girls that were so young that they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the bobbins. (January 19,1909)

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In Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind., girls are working at the weaving machines. (October 1908)

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Young boys working in the Cigar Factory in Indianapolis in August of 1908.

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Lewis Hine (right) was a schoolteacher, but felt so passionately about the living conditions of children in the workforce that he decided to become and investigator and photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.

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- Reformers believed that children should also be receiving an education instead of only working because young people in a democracy needed to be educated to perform their civic duty.
- Reformers believed that the government had a responsibility to protect the well-being and health of child workers.
- In 1902-1905, several organizations committed themselves to seeing an end to child labor in the U.S.
- When the Great Depression came and so many adults were out of jobs, labor unions and laborers encouraged the end of child labor to ensure that the adult population would have enough jobs.
- This led to law makers drafting a legislation which ended the practice of child labor in the U.S. in 1938

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- The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 prohibited children under the age of 16 from manufacturing and mining.
- The need for education, due to the jobs that required a higher level of knowledge, led Congress to amend the child labor law from 1938, and make it to include businesses, commercial agriculture, transportation, communications, and public utilities.
- The number of hours that children can work is strictly limited.
- Other rules protect their health and safety.

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- Children were smaller and more nimble, so they were able to perform functions that would be difficult for adults.
- It was more difficult for children to organize and demand for better working conditions.
- Employers could pay children lower wages than they had to pay for adults.

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- Families in poverty needed more than one pay check to survive off of.
- The $1.50  that children typically made per week could be enough to put food on the table for many families.
- Some families could not find work and relied on only the child's paycheck.

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Working Conditions for Children of the Industrial Revolution:

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Working Conditions for Children of the Industrial Revolution:

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- Children had to work for long hours without a substantial amount of time to rest.
- They were paid very low wages compared to men.
- Working conditions were very dangerous for children working on machines with powerful moving parts because they could possibly lose fingers, break bones, etc.
- Accidents occurred regularly in the factories.
- Many were hurt or killed in the accidents.