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    The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
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    The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Steven Otfinoski

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    It’s the 1800s, and you are a child from a poor family. You have to go to work to keep from starving. Will you: Work as a pauper apprentice in an English factory? Emigrate from Ireland in order to work in the New England cloth mills? Make your living on the streets of New York City selling newspapers? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781476598277
    The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure
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    Steven Otfinoski

    Steven Otfinoski has written more than 150 books for young readers. Three of his nonfiction books have been chosen Books for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library. Steve is also a playwright and has his own theater company that brings one-person plays about American history to schools. Steve lives in Connecticut with his wife, who is a teacher. They have two children, two dogs, and a cat.

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      The Child Labor Reform Movement - Steven Otfinoski

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      About Your Adventure

      Chapter 1:A Revolution Begins

      Chapter 2: The Pauper Apprentice

      Chapter 3: Factory Girl

      Chapter 4: Newsies on Strike

      Chapter 5: The End of Child Labor

      Timeline

      Other Paths to Explore

      Read More

      Internet Sites

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Back Cover

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      ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

      YOU live in the world of the Industrial Revolution. New machines produce things in great numbers and create new demand for goods. Factories are built in cities. Men and women are hired to operate the factory machines. Children are hired too.

      In this book you’ll explore how choices meant the difference between life and death. The events and work you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      CHAPTER 1

      A Revolution Begins

      Before the Industrial Revolution, clothing and other goods were mostly made by people in their homes or in workshops. Work was done by hand or with simple machines. By the mid-1700s in England, inventors created new power-driven machines. These machines could make many more goods than workers could by hand. The machines were put in factories.

      Workers came to cities to work in factories. They didn’t make a lot of money, but it was more than they could earn on farms and in workshops.

      The spinning room of a cotton mill in 1911 was a crowded, dangerous place.

      The Industrial Revolution quickly spread from England to other countries in Europe. It also spread to North America. Every industrialized country grew in population and wealth.

      But the Industrial Revolution also brought new problems. The factory workers were not paid well. They worked 12 to 14 hours a day, six days a week. Working conditions in factories were often dirty and unsafe.

      It was not only adults who put up with industrial work. Children worked to help with their family’s income. Employers liked to hire children because they would work for less money than adults. Children were less likely to complain about low pay or bad working conditions. They were also small enough to do jobs in tight spaces.

      Some child workers were only 5 or 6 years old. Child workers often weren’t allowed to attend school. They were exposed to pollution and machines that could injure or even kill them in an accident. Men called overlookers punished children who worked too slowly.

      Social reformers such as Jacob Riis and Lewis W. Hine and nonprofit organizations such as the National Child Labor Committee spread the word about the hardships of child labor. People were shocked by the reformers’ photographs and newspaper stories. Laws restricting child labor began to be passed in Great Britain, Germany, and later, the United States. But many of these laws weren’t passed until the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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