Child Labor Notes

Question 1

Reasons for Children to Work:

Answer 1

-Parents were injured on jobs and got fired
-Help financially support the family
-kicked out of regular education settings
-Life expectancy drops significantly
-Feeling like grown-ups making $$
- Orphans need to support themselves
-Parents don’t like their kids

Question 2

What kind of Work did Children perform:

Answer 2

• sold newspapers
  -textile factory jobs ( most dangerous jobs like fixing the machines when they were broken, crawling through small spaces, wiggled through sanitation pipes to clean out waste
  -coal mines -cotton fields - shoe shiner -sold small materials
  ex. Buttons, fabric, laces, etc. - horse manure street sweepers.

Question 3

What hazards (physical, metal, psychological) could be present with children working?

Answer 3

PHYSICAL: -injuries, -death, -sickness, -crime victims, -starvation from being poor
MENTAL: -loneliness -Not in school to further educational career - humiliation -stress -depression -temptation to enter into illegal actions (ex. Mob, organized crime, unorganized crime)