Answer:
Passage of child labor laws
Explanation:
“Crouched over the coal chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate. I once tried to do the work a twelve-year-old boy was doing day after day, for ten hours at a stretch, for sixty cents a day. The gloom appalled me.”
John Spargo
The quote describes the conditions in which underage children were forces to work during the Industrial revolution. We see that a twelve-year-old boy is working for ten hours a day, which is a clear exploitation of children. No one should work in the mentioned conditions – with such long hours and for such a small wage – especially not children who are still developing and require extra attention, care, and sleep.
During the Industrial revolution period, children were used as cheap labor in many cases. They were treated poorly and there were children as young as four working serious and dangerous jobs in the mentioned conditions.
The labor laws (Factory act) from 1847. criminalized for women and children to work more than 10 hours a day in the UK, where the said example comes from. Sadly, the child labor laws only were applied in the whole of Europe around the 1890s.
