The Role Of Child Labor In The United States

Industrialization brought many changes to the United States. With the industrial movement came the introduction of factories. These factories provided many people with new job opportunities that had not been available before. Although the United States was growing economically, there were many new problems that emerged because of industrialization. Problems that arose in cities were health hazards, safety hazards, city waste pollutants, and child labor. The three key points that I will discuss are: The messages from photos about child labor during the industrialization Era in America, how child labor has changed in The United States throughout time, and what caused child labor to change due to the industrialization era. Child labor was at its peak during the industrialization era. Working in the factories was dangerous, because it was extremely unsanitary and unsafe. Factories were especially not the place for a child to be in or be working in. The photos show us how the children were working in hazardous conditions, with the intention of making a little amount of money. One can also derive from the photos that a well percentage of the workforce at the time was made up of children. In the photographs
Although children needed to work at an early age to provide for their families during the industrial era, today this is no longer a problem in the United States. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act took effect. With that, children would no longer be tormented by the hazardous conditions of the factories. Today the legal working age in the United States is somewhere around sixteen years of age. This restriction enables children to be able to get a proper education without having to worry about working. The laws provided today by the government help aid children from being exposed to traitorous conditions and from being thrown into the work force at such a young