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| I put this picture up because it shows what i think is true and that children under the age of 18 shouldn't be working hard labour. |
In the days of the industrial revolution, factory owners in the united states employed child workers. In Britain, child labour was a major issue in the 19th century and it ended up getting legislated and was brought to an end.
In 1892 the social reforms, John Peter Altgeld, was elected for governor of illinois. Later on he was able to persuade the state legislature to pass legislation on control of child labour. The law stands for limiting children and women to a maximum eight hour day. In order to enforce this legislation John would appoint one of the country's leading campaigners against child labour. Florence Kelley was the states first chief factory inspector. She was the one to inspect factories and find out if they had any child laborers and to see how they would treat their factory employees. She got a staff of twelve, five of which were women, one was her assistant named Alzina Stevens. The success of this was "short-lived" and in 1895 the Illinois Association of Manufacturers was able to get that law repealed.
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| I see that in the picture the spider is rapping up the child because its saying that the child labour is what i need and im going to keep these children their not going no where |
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