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People that disagreed with child labor sought a constitutional ammendment.

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

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The use of child labor was cut do to new types of machinery. Many tasks done by children were mechanized, and most of the workers became semiskilled adults. Jobs of all sorts also increasingly required higher educational levels.

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Children were helpful as laborers because their size allowed them to move in small areas in factories or mines where adults couldn’t fit, children were easier to manage and control and ,they would be paid less than adults.

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Children worked to support their family, but would forgo education.

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In southern cotton mills, 25 percent of the employees were under the age of fifteen, half of those children below age twelve.

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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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Educational reformers convinced many that the education of he children was necessary for advancement of the nation. This led to minimum wage for labor and mini requirements for school attendance.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which for the first time set national minimum wage and maximum hour standards for workers in interstate commerce, also placed limitations on child labor. In effect, the employment of children under sixteen years of age was prohibited in manufacturing and mining.