Abolish Child Slavery, 1909
As industrialization moved workers from farms and home 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. Growing opposition to child labor in the North caused many factories to move to the South. By 1900, states varied considerably in whether they had child labor standards and in their content and degree of enforcement. American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers. An estimated million children under the age of fifteen were employed in American industry by 1900. Photograph showing two girls wearing "Abolish Child Slavery" banners in English and Yiddish. They were photographed at labor parade held in New York City on May 1, 1909.
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