segment one study guide
Through all periods of time children have been working, from hunting, to working on the farm, to being in a factory, to bagging groceries and a store. So children working are still here, although the requirements have changed. Some examples of these changes would be age requirements, certain wages, and amount of days and hours that can be worked in a week. In today’s time it is a lot different than when kids worked in the factories during the industrial revolution. The minimum wage for kids and people of all ages is in $7.25. This rule was made in the US department of labor. They made this because owner or employers would often pay little money for hard work and took advantage of people. Although there was never a “minimum wage” we can sort of tell know the pay was like by looking at old records. One record was a textile mill in Rhode Island made by the “father” of the industrial revolutions, Samuel Slater. They worked 12 hours a day for 6 days a week; they made less than a dollar a week. For the children that were never paid money, the employer justified it as payment being a place to live with shelter and food (although they were very packed and living environments were very shabby). Health hazards in the industrial revolution were great as people often lost fingers and hands. Some children also were killed by the machines. It was also hazardous because the people were more packed than a can of sardines which made space to work awful increasing the chances of injury. This soon became such an important issue that in 1833 a factory act was made stopping children from under 9 from working, children 9-13 could only work 8 ho8urs per day, ages 14-18 could not work more than 12 hours per day. Also all children were to go school for no less than 2 hours a day. In 1912 America made the children’s bureau and this made it the government’s responsibility to monitor children’s labor. Nowadays children working in America doesn’t affect