In the late 1700's and early 1800's, power-driven machines replaced hand labor for the making of most manufactured items. Factories began to spring up everywhere, first in England and then in the United States. The owners of these factories found a new source of labor to run their machines — children. Operating the power-driven machines did not require adult strength, and children could be hired more cheaply than adults. By the mid-1800's, child labor was a major problem.
Children with a factory job might work 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, to earn a dollar....which isn't very much these days, but alot back then.
By 1810, about 2,000,000 school-age children were working 50- to 70-hour weeks. Most of them came from poor familes with little money. When parents could no longer support their children, they sent them to work for a mill or factory owner. One glass factory in Massachusetts was fenced with barbed wire "to keep the young imps inside." The "young imps" were boys under 12 who carried loads of hot glass all night for a wage of 40 cents to $1.10 per night.
Today all the states and the U.S. Government have laws regulating child labor. These laws have cured the worst evils of children's working in factories. But some kinds of work are not regulated. Children of migrant workers, for example, have no legal protection. Farmers may legally employ them outside of school hours. The children pick crops in the fields and move from place to place, so they get little schooling.
Child labor may be banned in many countries today, but it still goes on in the rest of the world.
Like China and Japan.
Children with a factory job might work 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, to earn a dollar....which isn't very much these days, but alot back then.
By 1810, about 2,000,000 school-age children were working 50- to 70-hour weeks. Most of them came from poor familes with little money. When parents could no longer support their children, they sent them to work for a mill or factory owner. One glass factory in Massachusetts was fenced with barbed wire "to keep the young imps inside." The "young imps" were boys under 12 who carried loads of hot glass all night for a wage of 40 cents to $1.10 per night.
Today all the states and the U.S. Government have laws regulating child labor. These laws have cured the worst evils of children's working in factories. But some kinds of work are not regulated. Children of migrant workers, for example, have no legal protection. Farmers may legally employ them outside of school hours. The children pick crops in the fields and move from place to place, so they get little schooling.
Child labor may be banned in many countries today, but it still goes on in the rest of the world.
Like China and Japan.
Questions:
1. Which job is shown?
Various picture of children in workplaces.
2. What was the daily work schedule in this job that they had to follow?
Get up very early, eat breakfast and go to work at a certain time....you don't get lunch, and some workers get their dinners brought to them.
3. Were their any penalties for not meeting expectations on the job site?
Probably a beating, most likely kicked out, and a noification to the local police.
4. What were the physical challenges of the job?
Yes, textile machine's could chop off one's finger, or while fixing the underside of a machine, could have its dangers as if it was to start up, while you were still under it.
5. Was this job dangerous? How?
Yes because you could end up getting yourself killed.
6. Do you think that it was fair that children worked during this time period?
No, because in most incidents at the mill, the children either starved, were crushed by machines, or worse. And they never got an education that would get them very far.
7. In what parts of the world do children work today? Find a picture and put a caption on it to post to the blog.
Children are still sent to work in places like Africa, china, Japan, South America, Denmark, Russia, Germany, India, Korea (Both North and South side), and various other places.
This Boy is working in India, probably making darts or something else, I couldn't quite tell, and the caption underneath the picture said nothing. But he is most likely making your ideal board game. Think about that.
