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Child labor passed
As industrialization moved workers from farms and workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred because factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. The growing rate of child labor had a lot of Northern factories move to the South. By 1900 American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers.
