CHILD LABOR

CAUSES

• Most mills want cheap workers so they hired children
• One fourth of the workers were under 16
• The fedral goverment knew it was affect the childrens health

EFFECTS

• 1902: they prohibted the shipment of goods made by child labor
• Sevral states in the south adopted child labor laws
• 1903 in SC passed law that 12 was the minium age to work
• But the fedral said no 14 was the minium
• 1922 SC passed a law that a person who work 55 hours (child or adult)