Question

What/who helped to inspire child labor laws?

Answer 1

The primary motivation in employing children was not about preventing their idleness but rather about satisfying commercial interests and the desire to settle the vast American continent.

The Industrial Revolution saw the rise of factories and mines in need of workers. Children were ideal employees because they could be paid less, were often of smaller size so could attend to tasks in tight spaces and were less likely to organize and strike against their pitiable working conditions.

The President Roosevelt influenced child labour laws and even raised the issue of child labor in his 1901 and 1904–08 State of the Union addresses to Congress.

~Roni

Answer 2

Samuel Gompers

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Helped to inspire child labours laws