The employer of child labor in one factory cannot afford to hire adults, at their higher wage, until all the other factories give up the cheaper labor also.
Scholarships for the needy, the prohibition of child labor, and a high enough wage scale for adults to permit the youth of all classes to complete their education, are indispensable.
What is true of child labor is true of many other forms of modern industry--the price in human life makes the product dear.
At least, it was at last recognized as too expensive in England; apparently the calculation has to be made over again in every community where a new system of child labor is introduced.
Under this head would presumably come regulation of child labor, of hours, of sanitary conditions, of charges by railroads, gas companies, and other public service corporations.
Child labor, to give a single example, was not generally considered an evil a century ago, but to-day an enlarged social conscience condemns it.
In all sections of the country large numbers of children are found in agriculture, this industry generally being beyond the scope of child labor laws.
Four more States adopt sweat-shop laws, and there is further regulation of child labor.
Far Western States go on with the protection of child labor, particularly in mines, and Alabama adopts a general statute against picketing, boycotting, and blacklisting.
Child labor, while not entering directly into our present examination, is, as has already been said, inextricably bound up with the question of woman's work and wages.
Such an investigation must necessarily take into account many of the problems with which this question of child labor is connected.
Such an investigation should take into account the various problems with which the question ofchild labor is connected.
Let me again urge that the Congress provide for a thorough investigation of the conditions of child labor and of the labor of women in the United States.
PART III CHILD LABOR The subject of Child Labor is one of the vital questions of to-day, and every woman should study and know the conditions, particularly in her own State.
Take up the causes of child labor, the poverty, and the need to increase the family income; the employer's attitude toward child labor; the indifference to school.
A lawyer may be asked to come into the club and talk about the state laws, child labor, or any of the other subjects under discussion.
Begin with an introductory paper on child labor in the mills of England in the nineteenth century.
Sidenote: Child Labor] But far worse than all else, "the nation is engaged in a traffic for the labor of children.
Besides, the old preacher had begun to hate the mill and its infamous system of child labor with a hatred born of righteousness.
Of these two the parents are often the worse, for, since the late enactment of child labor laws, they do not hesitate to stultify themselves by false affidavits as to the child's real age.
But for the horrors ofchild labor in the carpet trade we must turn to the factories of Kirman.
The causes of child labor lie in the poverty and greed of parents, the demands of employers, and often the desire of the children to escape from school and earn money.
Many a child, in spite of the public opposition to child labor, is put to work to help support the family, and department store and bootblack parlor are conspicuous among their places of occupation.
The free rein at present given to child labor in our city streets is productive of nothing but harmful results, and it is high time that a determined stand was taken for the rights of children so exposed.
Hence the facts of modern industry justify and make necessary the "Child Labor Movement.
The children in the Orphanage Wear raiment far from fine, But no Orphanage is financed By child labor in a mine.
In the textile industry--an industry which came to me spontaneously and with a splendid cooperation as soon as the recovery act was signed--child labor was an old evil.
They were checked in their efforts to secure reasonable minimum wages and maximum hours and the end of child labor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "child labor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
