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This 8 page paper explores the working conditions that many children were forced to endure prior to laws regulating child labor. The role the Progressives played in implementing those laws is highlighted. This paper includes a 1 page Roman Numeral Outline. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Introduction Labor reform was a critical focus for the
Progressive Era, an era that spanned between 1890 and 1920 in the United States. This was a period of rapid industrialization, a period where people were abandoning their agrarian
lifeways and moving to the cities to take up work in the many factors that were being established. The working conditions in these factories were sometimes horrid and it
quickly became apparent that reform was needed. These reforms even extended to prohibitions from working children long hours in these factories but they also extended to the working conditions
that all workers were being forced to endure. The thesis can be presented that when the rapid industrialization that characterized this period coupled with the fact that slaves had
been recently emancipated as a result of the Civil War, a greater need arose for cheap labor. Industrialists turned to some of the most vulnerable people in our society
to provide part of that labor. Those people were our children. The Progressive Period, however, was soon to follow. It is characterized, in part, by labor reform
that was eventually successful in making industrialists abide by certain standards, standards that bettered working conditions for all Americans and that limited the degree to which children could be employed
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