Workplace Reforms6th Grade Social StudiesAL Standard 2Ms. Frederick

Workplace ReformsSkit Time!

Lewis Himehttp://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/

Workplace ReformsChild Labor Laws

What are theymaking?

What are the conditions like?

What needs to change?

Workplace ReformsChild Labor Laws

What are theymaking?

What are the conditions like?

What needs to change?

Workplace ReformsChild Labor Laws

What are theymaking?

What are the conditions like?

What needs to change?

Workplace ReformsChild Labor Laws

What are theymaking?

What are the conditions like?

What needs to change?

Workplace ReformsChild Labor LawsUsing the information we have collected, write a diary entry as one of the children featured in the photos. Requirements:

● Your entry must be at least two paragraphs long.

● Give a little background: How did you end up with this job? What did you do before you took the job? How do your parents feel about you working?

● Use descriptive words to talk about the job, your working conditions, and whatever changes you think need to take place.

Workplace Reforms

Child Labor Laws1904 National Child Labor Committee forms

Aggressive national campaign for federal child labor law reform

begins.

1916 New federal law threatens state violators

First federal child labor law prohibits movement of goods across

state lines if minimum age laws are violated.(Law in effect only until 1918,

when it’s declared unconstitutional, then revised, passed, and declared unconstitutional again)

1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor

Standards Act

For the first time, minimum ages of employment and hours of work

for children are regulated by federal law.

Workplace Reforms

Child Labor Laws

What about agriculture?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXLhNn6swOQChild farm workers and the CARE Act

● If passed, who would benefit from the CARE Act?

● If passed, who would suffer as a result of the CARE Act?

● Do you think Congress should pass this bill? Why or why not?

Workplace ReformsChild Labor Today: Hard to Swallow

Efforts to stop child labor around the worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzoVhw0eck

Child farm workers in America and the CARE Act - Interviews and Informationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfEtO00DSvI

Workplace ReformsWant to know more about the history, present reality, and future of child labor? http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/history-child-laborThis article is very informative and easy to read.

http://www.history.com/topics/child-labor/videosA couple of video clips about child coal miners in the early 20th century.

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_laws.htmlU.S. Child labor laws. This site has lots of interesting and powerful information about child labor in the U.S.