Sandra Azeez: Child Labor

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Sandra Azeez As you can tell from the pictures, many people were going through poverty, violence, greed, racism, class warfare, etc. Families, as well as children, had to work for less than they deserved in order to provide for their needs. Back in this era, child labor was a huge problem. Progressives conjecture was that the government was the way out of the social and activism problems. The factory was one of the jobs that had many children working. Children started working at an earlier age compared to this century. In one of Lewis Hine's photographs, they were being used in the factory because they were smaller and could get it done faster. For most struggling families, they earned so much little money from their jobs, since almost the

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