Not only hazard but child labor rise steeply. Between 1870
and 1900 the number of children – typically under 16 and paid a portion of what
adults made – grow from 700,000 to over 1.7 million. But why industrial
workplaces were so unsafe because there were insufficient laws that required welfare
be measured in the workplace, so most bosses decided that it was needless to
implement preemptive measures.
