Child Labor Research Paper

Why do we view the lives of children differently throughout history? The way we treat children has varied for example went they are consider ready from adult hood to viewing them as too young to make good decisions. Children use to have an active role in the workforce. Now days, most believe child labor should never happen no matter what the conditions. The focus of this paper is on children’s rights and the ways they were handle during the height of child labor. I took this topic because child labor is an important topic in the development in several nations and how what is expected of children changes during the years. The rights of children are often violated due to the lack of a cultures abilities to take cared for them, making them great targets for unrestricted work having no voice in the adult’s view.
The industrial revolution in America changed the way people lived. Big companies hired mountains of people by …show more content…
While gaining information on these area’s there were several recurring themes. The prime problem that led to child labor was low wages for adults leading to poverty. In each nation the adults were poorly under paid in return could not afford to support the house hold financial will out some more help. If the parent were well paid or at least enough to support their families these parents would not had encourage the children to work so hard. In many cases the adults were being work to the bone and didn’t have time to see what their children were doing. Another frequent problem was there was nobody left at home to take care of the children. Everyone was at work so that meant nobody but the children were left. So many would take their children to work with them or let them work because they view this as safer than leaving them at home. The main factor that brought about the change in this culture of working children was the rise in wages and new