Child Labor
Activity 3
Why were songs and poems a good way to inform people about working conditions for children in the 1800’s?
People who couldn’t read could learn about the conditions
Children liked to sing about their conditions as they worked
Everyone knew the words to the songs and poem
Schools used these songs and poems in the classrooms
Why were parents often shown in cartoons as sad as the factory owners took their children off to work?
The children were not making enough money
The children were learning at the factories and would soon leave them
They felt sad that the children had to work to help support the family
They wanted to go to work with the children.
Why was it important to tell the public about working conditions for children in factories and mines?
Explain how each of these showed child labor problems to the public?
Songs and poems
Written factual pamphlets
Cartoons
Testimony before Congressional Committees