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Before the Industrial Revolution ... A photograph from 1910 showing child labour in cotton mills in Georgia, USA. Children were a cheap source of labour in textile factories, until using children ...

Christians fought for laws to protect children during the Industrial Revolution. We can do it again in the smartphone age.

African countries must avoid the mistakes of the fossil-fuel industrial revolution; the mining of cobalt, lithium, manganese, ...

(The Center Square) – For the first time in more than a century, Illinois has updated the state’s child labor regulations ...

Facts About the History of Labor Day and the Labor Movement 1. The first Labor Day "parade" was actually a str ...

Legislative milestones, for instance, the UK’s Factory Act of 1833 and the Education Act 1918, which restricted children’s ...

In the late 19th century, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, workers faced grueling conditions, including 12-hour workdays, seven-day workweeks, and unsafe environments. Child labor was ...

Grantham, George 2012. Occupational, Marital, and Life-Cycle Determinants of Women's Labor Force Participation in Mid Nineteenth-Century Rural France. Feminist Economics, Vol. 18, Issue. 4, p. 97.