Child Labor
The children of poor immigrants in the Progressive Era were not attending school nor playing with toys as children of our day. Twenty percent of all children between the ages of 10 to 14 years of age labored for lower wages then did the adults who worked the same jobs. Most of the children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers. (1)
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