Children's Labor: A Problem
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A late-19th-century magazine article on child labor in Massachusetts factories and mills. It cites state school-attendance statutes and inspectors' findings of widespread non-compliance, and uses anecdotes and family budgets to show how working-class households depended on children's wages. It closes by arguing that child labor lowers adult wages and increases poverty, and it compares conditions in England.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- November 1880
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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