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In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which furt6her limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?

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Andrew Morel's Media Blog said...

Question:
In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which further limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?

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Answer:
Children worked harsh hours in tight, hot workshops. These children were of the very young age of 8 and mad very little wages. Some social influences that exploited child labor for so long were the need for work. Also poor families had children work because they needed the money. Child labor laws in the US were passed in 1904 with the Child Labor Law Committee. Some of these laws provided less hours of child labor and a higher age standard for working.

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Eric Mei said...

One Social Influence that made child labor was because of the wants and needs of money from their families. The Child Labor Laws was passed in 1904. These laws provided more work time for the children and a small wage for the children. The children are put in bad conditioned factories where they have to work.

Anonymous said...

The harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century were that the children worked in very hot and dangerous environments but made very little money. Children very young, barely in their teens, were working. The social influences that helped to exploit child labor for so long were that back then, big families and families in general needed money to survive, like for rent, food, and clothing. Families made very little even with all the adults working. The child-labor laws were passed in 1904. These laws provided that children work less hours, with more pay, and better conditions.

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Anonymous said...

Janice Tran.

Question:
In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which further limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?

Answer:
Children of poor and working class had worked for centuries during the Industrial Revolution. They worked in small places doing things adults would be doing today. Children had to support their family all they can just to survive. Even children worked in bad conditioned factories, sometimes the children can't afford shoes, therefore walking barefoot. They are also using sharp equipment to get the work done. There is this famous picture where a little boy is in the mine and hes trapped under there because the door closed. In a average family, everyone would be working to earn the money for food clothing heat rent and etc. Child Labor Laws were passed in 1904 in the United States. The laws provide that you have to be a certain age to work and for the age there's a specific amount of time that you can work, so there for there's new limits that protect.

arielzhang. said...

Ariel Zhang


Children who were forced to work in factories at young ages were in very harsh conditions for example, they worked at hot crowded and small factories. Children would have to do things that they shouldn't be doing at their age because it can be very dangerous and they had to work many hours a day but get very little pay. Social Influences that started child labor maybe the need for money in families and that less and less people were that adults that are working isn't enough therefore, kids were forced to work too. The Child Labor laws were passed in the Us in the year of 1904. These laws controlled the amount of time children worked each day, increased their pay, made sure their jobs were safe for their age.c

Raymond Liang said...

Children was put to work at very young ages under nine years old. They weren't allowed to work over 16 hours. Their working conditions were very hot and dangerous. There was alot of pollution in factories and often made children sick. Many families were very poor, therefore children were put to work to buy food and make a living. New laws were made to help out these families by giving children a certain age to work, less hours, and better working places.

Raymond Liang

Anna said...

Anna Zhang
One of the harsh labor conditions of the nineteenth century was that children that were as young as eight or nine were working in sweatshops. However, they couldn't work for over sixteen hours. A few of the social influences that kept child labor for so long was that families were pretty poor back then, and they needed the money. Even if the parents worked, they didn't have enough money to support their family, like putting food on the table. Child labor laws were finally being passed around the United States on 1904. The laws provided less working hours, but higher wages. Also, there were much better working conditions for the children.

Irza said...

Children were forced to work in dangerous environments for many hours a day. They did the work that adults should be doing and they weren't trained for any of it. They were also paid very little for it. Poor families needed every single member of the family to work in order to survive so children worked also. The child-labor laws were passed in 1904 to stop all this. Children weren't able to work under a certain age according to these laws and the conditions they worked in would be less dangerous. They would also get paid more.

xoemily68 said...

Question:
In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which further limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?

Answer:
the harsh child- labor conditions of the nineteenth century were thousands of children under 16 years old worked in factories. Many immigrants including women and children worked in sweatshops, dark, crowded workshops where workers made clothing. They ruined their eyesight by sewing for hours in poor light. It was fill with flammable materials whcih means it was easy to cause a fire. Their pay was low and had to work long hours. Other places like factoires and mines were noisy, unhealthy, and unsafe. Accidents were very frequent. Steel worker suffered burns from spills of hot steel. Coal miners died in caves from the effect of gas and coal dust. Some social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long were everybody needed money during the nineteenth century. Since their wages were low, it was hard for them to pay rent, food, and clothing. The effect of doing their job cause alot of people to become sick. They nalso needed money for medical check and medicine. The Fair Labor Standards Act was passes in 1938.This act provided minimum wages, hours worked, and youth employment.

jennifer93 said...

In the nineteenth century some harsh labor conditions for children were; everything was very unsanitary so the factories were very dirty and not clean. What’s even worse, children did not have proper equipment for working, for example gloves and goggles. Since these were high powered machines, it would be safer for an adult to work them, but instead kids that were 9 years of age worked on them .The major cause of these problems were because urbanization was sweeping the country where factories were being built so business owners needed workers, and because immigrants were coming to America the business owners could pay very low wages to the employers. And because the economy for immigrants were very bad, couples would have children on purpose so when they grow up they could work in factories, that’s why child-labor was so long until laws were passed to help the situation. Child Labor laws started in 1904, these laws provided less hours of work, better working conditions, and higher wages, these laws are still in affect in today’s society.

Nargiza said...

According to the British Parliament, in 1833, there was a law passed which prevented kids of a certain age to work more than a certain amount of time.
During the 19th century, there was child labor going on. Children starting with the age of 8 worked for 14, or sometimes even sixteen hours under very harsh conditions. Children were punished(beaten) when they did not follow rules that were given.
The social influences that helped exploit child labor for so long was the need of money. Poor families had no other choice but to send their children to work.
Finally, in 1833, the Parliament passed an act which did not permit children to work more than a certain hours a day. According to this act, children under a certain age cannot have jobs either.


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Anonymous said...

Children in the nineteenth century were pretty muched forced to work in harsh and dangerous conditions. The children had to work in order to help there famalies get money and survive. The conditions that the children worked in harmed there helth and sometimes cost them there lives. To further prevent this the Child Labor Laws were passed in the United States in 1938. This law was finnaly passed after many years of the law being denied. These laws decreased the number of working hours for children, and raised the minimum working age.
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Tiffany said...

In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which further limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?


Their were many harsh child-labor conditions in the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. Children starting from a very young age were working is unsafe, dangerous environments. Their are many portraits that were taken of young children with no shoes and ripped clothes working with big, heavy machinery! The social influences that helped exploit child labor was the need for money, to have a home and food, families needed all the money they could obtain, even if it meant having their 5 year old son work in a factory for minimum wage. The child- labor laws were passed in the United State in 1904 by the National Child Labor Commitee, who were social workers.It was not until 1938, when the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed, and child labor laws succeed . It requires employers to pay child laborers the minimum wage, and limits the age to 18 if the job is dangerous or unsafe. Child labor still exist, but the conditions are better. The child labor laws were needed because of the harsh conditions faced by underage workers!

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Helen Huang (; said...

Children used to work at a very young age because their families were poor, and didn't have money, so their kids had to work. They would have to work in sweat shops, in horrible conditions, such as it being tight, hot and if there was any emergency, it would be pretty hard to escape. In 1904 child labor laws were passed. Some of these laws gave children less hours of work in the day and a higher age before they could start working, also better conditions.

Joey Wu said...

~~~JOEY WU~~~

Children worked in very hot and dangerous environments but made very little money. Poor families needed every single member of the family to work in order to survive. Social influences that started child labor maybe the need for money in families. Child labor laws in the US were passed in 1904. The laws provide that you have to be a certain age to work and for the age there's a specific amount of time that you can work.
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