Child Labor

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Child Labor

• The Coal Workers
• Greasers little boys who were responsible for
  greasing the wheels of the mining carts.
• Trappers These boys were responsible for keeping
  the air in the chambers of the mines where the
  men were working. Often they would sit in the
  dark for hours, opening the doors to let air and
  carts in and out of the mine shafts.
• Breaker Boys were responsible for breaking apart
  the chunks of coal into workable pieces.

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• Textille Mills
• Children worked from 7am- 6pm.
• Dangerous occupation.
• Ages 5 and up.
• Some children became flat footed due to the long
  hours of standing upright.
• Denied schooling and some didnt even know who
  George Washington was!!

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Sweatshops

• Small houses or shops were many people worked in
  claustrophobic conditions.
• Often tenament housing. Children were as young as
  five, cutting buttons and picking up scraps.

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Who was in charge of reform?

• Leaders of the Strikes.
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a 21-year-old organizer
  for the Industrial Workers of the World.
• American Federation of Labor.
• Flynn, Big Bill Haywood and other IWW leaders.
• Mary Jones- strong leader whose husband was
  killed in a factory.

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