hard times brought pollution, poverty, and prejudice. Along with these corruption's brought one

of the darkest sides of the industrial revolution and America's past, child labor.

The industrial revolution brought many social evils. One of possibly the most worse of the

social issues happens to be the unfair treatment of children in labor. Child Labor was a scandal of

Child Labor is the employment of children working under the age of physical maturity

(Hine, index). Children would start work in mills, coal mines, and factories as young as 5 years

old, to 18 years of age. An average child would work 18 hour days. Work days typically ran

from dawn to sunset, and winter usually brought longer hours, from 68 to 72 hours per week.

The average pay for a child in labor was around $ 3.25 a week (Green, p 13).

After the Civil War, the industrial revolution took off. Businesses soared. Along with

new businesses, labor was needed. As the number of factories started to grow in the United

States, so did the number of people required to tend them. Immigrants came to the U.S. to make a

fact that most of these laws did not apply to immigrants, which made up more then half of the

enacted laws restricting or prohibiting the employment of young children in the work place.

Pennsylvania was the first state to place restrictions on the age of children employed in

with it. Often with the approval of political, cultural, and religious leaders, children were aloud to

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