Another work day for our project that is now due of friday. Thank goodness. And it's ANOTHER test day.
One of my topics is work and safety conditions. In our history book, it says that as the number of child workers rose high, reformers worked to protect workers and child labor. Businesses hired children because they did unskilled jobs for a low pay. And their small hands made it easier for them to handle small tools and parts. Some immigrants and rural migrants sent their children to work because they saw their children as part of the family economy. Because wages were so low, some families had every family member going to work to pull the family out of poverty.
Factory managers preferred kids to work for them because they were less likely to strike, they saw them as more manageable, and cheaper, as industrialization pulled farmers from farming and home workshops into urban areas and factory work.
In the 1900's, American kids mostly worked in large numbers in mines, textiles, glass factories, cannariers, agriculture, home industries, and as news boys, messangers, peddlers, and bootblacks. Small children were morelikely prone to accidents caused by fatigue. They suffered serious health problems, which caused then to stunt grouth.
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html
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