1. What is your favorite childhood memory?
Read the Story of Child Labor – be prepared to define terms: agrarian, exploitive

2. Brief Timeline for child labor
Agrarian Society – children worked daily at home, private businesses, and farms
Little to no child labor, very highly regulated. Still a problem around the world.
Industrial Age – children started working longer hours at tougher jobs, becoming controversial to work

3. 1900’s Life
Your Life

4. Skim through the packet to answer the questions
On the back, include 10 additional facts you found interesting.
Do NOT write in the packet!

5. Why did some parents want their children to work
Why did some parents want their children to work? Why did they lie about their ages?
Families needed the money and children were fired if they were too young.

7. In the modern day…

8. Ending Child Labor

9. Is child labor an issue today… in the US?
FURTHER STUDY
Library of Congress
Child Labor Public Education Program
Child Labor Photo Project