Child Labor During the Progressive Era

1916 - "Child labor employment tax" - 10% tax for all projects employing children under 14 years of age

1917 - Smith - Hughes law - $ 1 million in state providing vocational education programs at public schools

Reformers' goals include developing plans to reduce child labor and increasing children's participation in education and extracurricular activities.

In 1899, Consumer Association, Women Workers Association and other organizations established the national consumer trade union in 1904.

Despite the many child labor laws enacted today and enacted today, the problem of child labor still exists.

Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis, both photographers and journalists, helped promote public opinion about child labor in progressive age by announcing dramatic photographs depicting the situation of child labor throughout the country. More and more states and local politicians listen to their voters and support reform. They adopted a set of laws designed to limit the working age of children and to improve working conditions. At the same time, child laborers are often fighting for their careers. In New York and Connecticut, the press continued strikes to get high wages and fought with the corporate mobs sent to intimidate them. After Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire who killed more than 100 immigrant girls in 1911, many young textile workers in New York joined the union and struggled for better situation. Children work hard in order to improve the living environment nationwide

In the 1890s and 1920s, the United States experienced a period of progress and improvement called the era of progress. Progressive age is the period of trying to remedy the problems posed by the "golden age", such as child labor, poor living environment, monopoly and political corruption. Progressive is displayed and it consists of American mediators. Doktoro 's rug time succeeded in using fictitious figures to symbolize the emergence of a progressive era. Depending on the role of father and mother, Dokuto depicts this period and reflects it. They symbolize typical middle-class families who believe they need help of lower classes and self-sufficiency.

In the latter half of the progressive era, in about 1908, progressive economists and their reformers altered the scope of work, including the regulation of working conditions, the prohibition of child labor, the enactment of "brothers" pension, and the "labor campaign" We achieved the legal victory of. And minimum necessary fixed wage. In case of using eugenics to justify the exclusion of immigration laws, racially suicide theorists are economists who advocate labor reform, in particular those related to the American Labor Law Association, scholarly economics organized by Orloff and Skocpol Of the model. The house of the progressive era (1984, p. 726) called "Association of leaders of the American social reform advocacy group".