Child Slavery: Child Labor In The United States

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For Mother Jones, child labor is mentally, socially, physically dangerous because they are working at their you age. Children are obliging them to leave school prematurely. The children go out early dawn into the factory, maddening noise, lint filled rooms. During the lunch half-hour, the children would fall to sleep over their lunch. They are going to lie on the bare floor and fall asleep. Because sleep is their only way of having a recreation, a release, a time where they can play. According to her, the one who is responsible for this appalling child slavery is everyone. Alabama passed a child labor law, endeavoring to some extent to protect its children. They reach legislatures, send lobbies to work against child labor reform, and money,

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