Child Labor During The Industrial Revolution

During the Industrial Revolution, many children regardless of age were used for their labor. “Although children had been servants and apprentices throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution” . This worsened as more groups began to migrate to America. Children faced unfair and unhealthy working conditions, often having to neglect their education to make money with their families and being paid less than adults. With the turn of the 20th century, educational and child labor activist groups began to form and strengthen. They established minimum wage, minimum requirements for school attendance, and some states upheld the restricting child labor while other found loopholes . Society responded to this separation of adult and child life educationally and in the workplace by conceptualizing childhood differently. Consequently, efforts were made to maintain childhood and education while managing the spread of contamination of the measles. Compared to other tactics of disease control, there were distinctly different approaches to
In “When to be Afraid: A Common-Sense Talk About Children’s Disease,” Emma E. Walker, MD warns mothers to make sure their children get adequate sleep, get to play in fresh air, and bathe to remove germs that live on tissues and fluids to prevent bodily entry . Contrasting these recommendations with those during the times of conditions such as the plague, Black Death, and syphilis, children with measles are not being blamed for being the carrier of the diseases and were instead “innocent victims” with the culprit suspected to be microbes. There was no sin associated with the disease, and children had done no wrong. With less emphasis on blame, the people in the time if the measles epidemic were able to focus on efforts of decreasing contamination and identifying the