Child Labor Laws by Benjamin Carlson https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo en-us 2018-11-09 17:16:42 UTC 2026-01-02 08:31:48 UTC hello@padlet.com RESTRICTIONS ON WORKING HOURS FOR MINORS 14 and 15 YEARS OF AGE No person under 16 shall be employed: For more than 3 hours a day in any school day 22carlsonbenjamin https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302672673 This is the case so school work does not suffer, along with sleep as people under 16 are still learning to juggle school with life, so to add a 4+ more hours of work - something would have to give whether it be school, sleep, or even health. If this law had been instituted before and/or during the Industrial Revolution - children working in factories may have been able to go to school, or even have a healthy life without having to be beat to stay awake everyday as minors even younger than 14 and 15 had to work a 16+ hour shift, six days a week.]]> 2018-11-09 17:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302672673 PROHIBITED OCCUPATIONS FOR MINORS UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE Work in boiler or engine rooms; maintenance or repair of machinery 22carlsonbenjamin https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302678506 This is so much younger minors under 16 with little to no experience do not injure themselves or others as a result of engines, machines, etc.  as minors in the Industrial Revolution had many injuries due solely to machines in the factories.]]> 2018-11-09 17:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302678506 PROHIBITED OCCUPATIONS FOR MINORS 14 through 17 YEARS OF AGE Coal mines 22carlsonbenjamin https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302680434 This is the case because even if a 16 - 17 year old posses some form of experience, it is simply not safe for them to work in coal mines as even much older, experienced, adults have died as a result of coal mines. Due to the polluted air in Coal mines, it is no where near safe for a minor to damage the lungs and have to live there whole life with that injury ]]> 2018-11-09 17:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302680434 Industrial Revolution Cartoon 22carlsonbenjamin https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302685801 This cartoon depicts how the children crying as they have to do so much work in the factories for 16+ hours a day to barely earn any money for there family. The piles of surrounding trash depicts the terrible health conditions that the factories produced.]]> 2018-11-09 17:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/22carlsonbenjamin/rs8bs6fmxqlo/wish/302685801