child labor- alice

Sweatshop workers in New York were dominated by people of different races and ages. Most people working in these sweatshops were living in slums and on the streets of dirty New york. The Irish worked mostly from 1850 to 1880. Around 1865 Germans entered the industry followed by Jews and Russians. These groups included children. These children perform simple tasks that often require strength. For example, they moved goods from shop to shop. Often these people came to America knowing little to nothing about being a seamstress or about working in a garment factory. Not only did children work at factories and sweatshops, but their homes also became a workplace too. Many children loved school a lot more than their own homes because they knew when they would go home they would work. These children almost made New York and were the base of many industrial factories. The biggest reason why children were employed was because of less pay, more manageable, and less likely to strike or be non-cooperative. In 1836 the first child labor law came to be but despite the laws being made the child labor force peaked in the early decades of the 19th century. It took a century for the final child labor law to become. In 1938, for the first time, child labor laws were controlled by the federal government. Protecting children by providing a minimum age and wage for children in the workforce.