Jalen's child labor fiasco timeline

By Jalen Rose

  • Mary Harris Jones was a union leader and helped support 75,000 textile workers,(child labor activists)

    Mary Harris Jones was a union leader and helped support 75,000 textile workers,(child labor activists)
    In this day in age Mary Harris Jones is an example of child labor progress in the, Gilded Age by showing that some people were trying to improve the conditions of child labor.

  • Muckraker John Spargo wrote "the bitter cry of a child" exposing the conditions in child labor.

    Muckraker John Spargo wrote "the bitter cry of a child" exposing the conditions in child labor.
    This shows growth in the conditions of child labor because it shows how Muckraker brought everyone's attention to how kids were being treated.

  • "THe organization "(national child labor committe)" recieved a charter form from congress in 1907. It hired teams of investigators to gather evidence of children working in harsh conditions," (child labor activist).

    This is an example of growth because the congress is at least trying to figure out the harsh conditions of working children and help them.

  • Photographer Lewis Hine takes photos of children doing labor, (child labor: Lewis Hine Photographs).

    This is an example of growth because photographer Hine was noticing and bringing people's attention to child labor

  • In this year the congress passed the Keeting-Owens act which made it so the youngest you can be to work in a mine is 16 and you could only work for 8 hours a day ( child labor legislative efforts).

    This show the congress is creating better working conditions by having older children work for 8 hours so that they have a chance to go to school.

  • "By 1916 congress acted and passed the Keeting-Owens act that established...a minimum age of 14 for workers I manufacturing," (child labor legislative efforts).

    "By 1916 congress acted and passed the Keeting-Owens act that established...a minimum age of 14 for workers I manufacturing," (child labor legislative efforts).
    This shows growth in the society because it shows that the congress is trying to improve the conditionds of child labor by not having small children work.

  • In 1918 the congress tried to regulate child labor by using the governments power to collect taxes , (child labor legislative efforts.

    This shows growth because the congress is trying to find possible ways to regulate child labor

  • "By 1920, the number of child labor was cut to nearly half of what it had been in1910,(child labor legislative efforts).

    This shows growth because half of the child labor rate went down.