Child+Labor+Laws+cct


 * [[image:upton-sinclair.gif height="80" caption="upton-sinclair.gif" link="Upton Sinclair cct "]] || [[image:jacob-riis-cct.gif height="80" caption="jacob-riis-cct.gif" link="Jacob Riis cct"]] || [[image:child-labor-laws-cct.gif height="80" caption="child-labor-laws-cct.gif" link="2. industry cct"]] ||

Child Labor Laws
Children had always worked on family farms, but mines and factories presented more dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Coal mines hired thousands of 9 or 10-year-old "breaker boys" to pick slag out of coal, paying them 60 cents for a 10-hour day. The way they worked bent their backs permanently and often crippled their hands.