Since their husbands were laid off, bringing in little or no money, the women went out to look for part time jobs such as being a maid to the wealthier families. The women also had a hard time keeping her young children in school, especially if they lived on a farm because the children would need to help their mother and father with the animals and crops, so they wouldn’t get a proper education. The few women that went to collage had to drop out because the price was too high to afford to stay in. It was harder for women to get a job because they were weaker than men and most likely inexperienced but they would take what they could get, if they could get anything. The women who was at their last resort was to send their children away to work and earn a small pay to buy food.
In picture A, its showing children with lost limbs while at work. This means the factories they worked in were very dangerous. In Document J, it's an interview between the interviewer and a child who works in a factories. The child had said he worked from 6am to 8pm and if he was ever late, he was severely beaten as he said. Children worked long hours, not adults but children and they received consequences for just being late.
Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous. Many immigrant workers were killed and injured (OK). Even young children worked in these dangerous factories (OK). Reformers and Progressives got laws passed to prohibit child labor. They also got a minimum wage set for women (Document 3).
Most people who worked in the factories lived in the factories which had little living space, lack of proper ventilation and lack of proper hygiene (Wikipedia). Due to the poor living conditions and overcrowding people were subject to health issues and death related from communicable diseases. Along with the poor living conditions, hunger and malnutrition were common during this time. Labor laws did not exist. Workers worked long hours without breaks and children were also subjected to these cruel working conditions as they were often put to work alongside their parents.
Children are working long hours in unsafe working conditions to help support their family from a very young age. These children are the ones we need to keep our country going once we have all perished. However, we are putting them through such hardship that many of them will die before they turn 30 due to health conditions and diseases caused by working so young.Young boys are working in coal mines breathing in toxic air for hours at a time. Accidents are not uncommon and sometimes cause fatalities while working (Doc B.) If we are relying on these children to run our country in the future, why are we putting them in such harsh environments and harming them?
(69 words) 4. Between the 1820’s and 1860’s housing , nutrition , and diseases all had an large impact on the lives of slaves. Because of the horrible nutrition and houses and the disease , this was the early death of many slaves. Slaves would get diseases like sickle cells or small pox’s because of the weather in the south slaves didn’t , slaves didn’t eat very well , there bodies were not getting the correct nutrient it needed. And because of the poor sanitation that food and water were supplied in slaves had very bad housing.
Hate groups and hate crimes cast alarm among African American families of the Deep South. The promise of owning land had not materialized. Most blacks toiled as sharecroppers trapped in debt. In the 1890s, a boll weevil blight damaged the cotton crop throughout the region, increasing the despair. All these factors served to push African Americans to seek better lives.
The disease impacted the peasants more than any other class. This also caused a shortage of workers to work the land and harvest crops so that they could be ready for sale. These workers were the ones who lived in poor conditions where the disease was abundant in turn caused wages to go up and demand for workers to go up as well. The land
Sweatshop Labor Practices. Angel A Montaz PHL/320 27 April 2015 Laura Lewis Sweatshop Labor Practices Sweatshop labor is something we hear a lot too often in the TV, social media, and at work on the Human Trafficking training. Sweatshop is defined by the United States ARMY and the Department of Labor as company that breaks several human and Federal laws. Sweatshops are inhumane, companies force people on false pretended promises to work in unsafe, unsanitary, and harsh conditions for low or not wages. They usually use children, woman, and old people as well.
Childhood for a slave child was especially challenging. Childhood was often filled with hard labor, long work hours, and frequent splitting of families. Many children got seriously injured or died from carrying heavy workloads, beatings, or from lack of water/food. Because life was so hard for slave they created kinship networks. They would all act as family to one another.