{"id":15781,"date":"2009-12-03T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2014-01-20T02:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T07:03:23","slug":"child-labor-in-america-1908-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/03\/child-labor-in-america-1908-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Labor in America 1908-1912"},"content":{"rendered":"

These days the talk is about adult-olescence, or the seeming extention of adolescence well into ones twenties.\u00a0 But the idea that children should have a childhood at all is actually pretty recent.\u00a0 Before industrialization, when families tended to work their own land, children got to work as soon as they were able.\u00a0 Being apprentices to their parents was the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n

Industrialization brought a whole new kind of work: wage work that occurred outside the home.\u00a0 At that time, it made perfect sense that kids would work, as they’d be working on the farm all along.\u00a0 Only later did we decide that working outside the home was different than working at it and that, perhaps, children working outside of the home needed protection.\u00a0 The first federal law regulating child labor was passed in 1938<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below are some amazing photographs of child laborers from The History Place<\/a> (thanks to Missives From Marx<\/a> for pointing me to them).<\/p>\n

The Spinning Factory:<\/p>\n

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Newsies:<\/p>\n

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Miners:<\/p>\n

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Factory Workers:<\/p>\n

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Seafood Workers:<\/p>\n

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Fruit Pickers:
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Misc.:<\/p>\n

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\"z3\"<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These days the talk is about adult-olescence, or the seeming extention of adolescence well into ones twenties.\u00a0 But the idea that children should have a childhood at all is actually pretty recent.\u00a0 Before industrialization, when families tended to work their own land, children got to work as soon as they were able.\u00a0 Being apprentices to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,36,253,272,76],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-economics","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61103,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions\/61103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}