National Child Labor Committee

million children working under the age of fourteen. Children were employed in mining, farming, textiles and factories. Child laborers worked long shifts, sometimes up to 14 hours with little break periods. They worked in environments that were unhealthy and dangerous. The children risked losing limbs, being crushed by machinery, burns and exposure to poisonous fumes. Sometimes child laborers were shackled and beaten by their superiors. At the age of 12, Jacob Riis, concerned with people…

photographer. The child tucks one hand snugly in her apron pocket. She folds the other hand under, just above her left hip. The girl's shirt displays tattered ruffles that lay upon one shoulder and the print shows dull, faded polka dots. Likewise, her apron has no hem. The expression she wears says she possesses no extra time for this cameraman. Although she is in the first ten years of her life, the little worker holds her body as if she matured into the exhaustion of adulthood. The child…

Many artists use their work to protest against injustice, inequality, and oppressions. Protest art illustrates a belief in a possible change through raising the consciousness of people and believing in a dignity of people. The usual audience for protest art vary from one piece of art to another. For some artists, the audience is the people who are being oppressed, for others the oppressors are the intended audience. In few cases, the protest art is addressed to policy makers to raise the concern…

would find wearisome. Working long hours, every day for mere pennies. Today it would be hard to believe that this could ever have occurred, yet sadly in the 1900’s, this was the reality for many of the youth. The National Child Labor Committee had been trying to put an end to child labor since it had been founded in 1904, yet they had faced little success. One reason for this was it had…

Poor children in the 1920’s and 1930’s endure life threatening labor conditions to help family’s survive; pose unknowingly for photos that will play a significant role in changing child labor laws. Young boys working in a coal mine, ranging in age from 10 to 16 gathered in front of a large opening that can be assumed to be the entrance/exit of a coal mine, with somber faces, dressed with every available resource around them. Observe, the young boy in the center front row showing suspenders held…

These workers typically worked seven days a week, twelve hours each day, some enduring 24 straight hours of intense labor. After looking closely at Document B, Neill-Reynolds, a muckraker who investigated and gave nationwide publicity to accidents and unsafe conditions. The report was basically about poor conditions in the meat packing industry and violation of international agreements promising a safe workplace. The factory conditions were poor: light source was natural light, few windows,…

No free time like a regular child would get today, just going to the mines ready to have permanent scar on your body. Let’s say you are a 9 year old boy in the 1880’s. If you habited in the right side of the country, you were considered a hard-working factory worker.The majority of these kids were unhealthy, monotonous, and not incapable to continue on. In 1900’s, over 1.7 million children under the age of 16 works outside their homes. For many years, children had been suffering until the…

the hardworking culture, our labor rights laws are not much guaranteed like the United States. The laws might be firm, but they are not enforced, at least. Thus, when we think about Western European countries, America, and Canada, we envy their good system like 8-hour workdays, maternity leave, or overtime pay. As an Industrial-Organization psychology student, I learned about the good labor system in America. In my major class, I memorized the history of the labor laws for tests, of course,…

at an exceptional rate. Large working cities provoked numerous changes due to the corruption, greed, and filth that lingered in the streets of America. The Progressives and politicians sought this as an opportunity to arrange a span of political, labor, and social reforms. During the Progressive Era, many people became aware of urban mechanical machines due to urbanization; and as a result, the Progressives pursued a political reformation. Political machines were an indigenous hierarchical…

In the early 1800’s and early 1900’s child labor played a huge role in America, and has vastly impacted our society in many ways. The people and the Government sought to look deeper into the dirt that was being done to these young children in the work industry. America had to come together and look at the overview of child labor. There were many positive and negative effects that came into place when child labor was declared unconstitutional as a whole. Although children had been overpowered…