Formation of Our Nation

   Child labor was a major problem in forming the nation. Factories owners were using children to work for little pay. This nation is the nation of freedom but the children that work in the mines didn't have freedom. The children also worked in spilling mills & in hauling heavy loads. The children was treated poorly. They didn't get any rest or chance to have a childhood.

Times got hard for families and the parents were focused to turn the children over to the mills and factory owners.

   A glass factory in Massachusetts had barbed wire on the fences to keep the children from getting out. Boys under the age of 12 years old would carry loads of hot glass all night. The wage for working were from 40 cents to 1.10 cents.

    The poorly treatment that the children were getting was cruel. This nation was suppose to help the families make a better life. Not to treat children like worthless human beings. This formed the nation because now there is a child labor law. All children should receive the proper education and have a chance to have a childhood. Don't have to worry about working long hours for little pay. 

Child Labor In U.S. History

     In the late 1700's and early 1800's there was machines made to replace the hand labor for the making of the manufactured items. Factories began to expand everywhere, the first place was in England then in the United States. The owners of the factories found a new way of labor to run the factories machines.The owners was going to use children. To work the power-driven machines did not need adult strength and children would be cheaply than adults. By the mid-1800's the child labor was a big problem.

  Children was always working, especially in farming. The factory work was hard. A child that worked a factory job might have worked 12 to 18 hours for six days a week. They would work all those days and hours just to earn a dollar. Most children began working before the age of 7 years old, working on the machines in spinning mills or the hauling heavy loads. The factories were damp, dark, and dirty. There was some children worked underground in coal mines. The working children didn't have anytime for school or to play, and they didn't get any rest. Most of the children became every ill.Child Labor was killing the children.