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Child Labor: By Elias Muhammad

  • Child labor in the mines. The work in the mines were very dangerous and would hurt the children's hands.

    When the coal mines started to get popular they needed workers to break the coal "One of the most prevalent forms of Chil labor at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was in the coal mines".
  • Support a strike by 75,000 textile workers, some of these workers were children to support the cause about abolishing child labor

    More than 1,000,000 children worked 10,000 children protested against labor for long hours for very little money
  • The national child labor committee is formed with a goal to abolishing all child labor

    The national child labor committee is a non profit organization. In 1904 they incorporated and act of congress. In 1907 with the mission of promoting the right, dignity well being education of child
  • Children's bureau became a federal information clearinghouse that also supported that also supported the cause to abolish child labor

    The US children bureau is founded with Julia Lathrop as its first head the organization is poised to monitor the situation of the children
  • Child labor became a law so now children are free for the harsh conditions of child labor

    Congress adopts a constitutional amendment banning child labor and send amendments out to be ratified by state legislatures
  • President Franklin Roosevelt signs the fair labor standards act

    When the president signed the fair labor standards act that play to limits on many forms of child labor
  • The fair labor standards act prohibits chi,d labor which means that people are protesting even more to abolish child labor completely

    An amendment to the fair labor standards directly prohibits child labor for the first time
  • The international labour organizations convention 138 becomes and international law. Known as the "minimum age convention"

    "The minimum age convention" it sets out to child labor among aged children