Standard 5-3.4

5-3.4 Summarize the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of big business, including the development of monopolies; long hours, low wages, and unsafe working conditions on men, women, and children laborers; and resulting reform moveme...

Grade(s): 3, 4, 5

Year: 2011

Eddie Norton, A Sweeper In the Saxon Mill | History of SC Slide Collection

Photo

Eddie Norton, a sweeper in the Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, was photographed by the child labor reformer Lewis Hine on May 17, 1912, for the U.S. Child Labor Commission. Courtesy of the National Archives...

Child Labor in the Carolinas

Lesson

Employers need employees or workers. During the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, many new jobs were created. Many of the workers who filled these new jobs were children. The problem...