The Reality of Child Labor in 1906 America
John Spargo vividly describes the harsh conditions faced by children working in coal breakers and textile factories in 1906. The excerpt highlights the dangerous work environments, physical deformities, accidents, and health risks faced by these young workers. Through detailed accounts, Spargo sheds light on the inhumane treatment and exploitation of children in various industries during that time.
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Good Morning! Good Morning! Find your group from last class Please get out your Progressives Project sheet, your Major Themes sheet, and any notes you took from the homework reading. Be ready for a homework quiz!
First Four Document Analysis - OMCL Quietly read the excerpt from Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities. Identify the following: Origin Message Connections Limitations What stands out to you? What are your thoughts on this passage? What do you know about the US election system that is controversial or might need to be addressed? Four Minutes Four Minutes End
From John SpargosThe Bitter Cry of the Children 1906 Work in the coal breakers is exceedingly hard and dangerous. Crouched over the chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate and other refuse from the coal as it rushes past to the washers. From the cramped position they have to assume, most of them become more or less deformed and bent-backed like old men. When a boy has been working for some time and begins to get round-shouldered, his fellows say that He s got his boy to carry round wherever he goes.
From John SpargosThe Bitter Cry of the Children 1906 The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushed fingers, are common among the boys. Sometimes there is a worse accident: a terrified shriek is heard, and a boy is mangled and torn in the machinery, or disappears in the chute to be picked out later smothered and dead. Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners' consumption.
From John SpargosThe Bitter Cry of the Children 1906 In some occupations, such as silk-winding, flax-spinning, and various processes in the manufacture of felt hats, it is necessary, or believed to be necessary to keep the atmosphere quite moist. The result of working in a close, heated factory, where the air is artificially moistened, in summer time, can be better imagined than described. So long as enough girls can be kept working, and only a few of them faint, the mills are kept going; but when faintings are so many and so frequent that it does not pay to keep going, the mills are closed. The children who work in the dye rooms and print shops of textile factories, and the manufactured, are subject to contact with poisonous dyes, and the results are often terrible. Very frequently they are dyed in parts of their bodies as literally as the fabrics are dyed
From John SpargosThe Bitter Cry of the Children 1906 Children employed as varnishers in cheap furniture factories inhale poisonous fumes all day long and suffer from a variety of intestinal troubles in consequence. The gilding of a picture frame produces a stiffening of the fingers. The children who are employed in the manufacture of wall papers and poisonous paints suffer from slow poisoning. The naphtha fumes in the manufacture of rubber goods produce paralysis and premature decay
GQ3 What were the goals of the Progressive Movement? GQ4 How successful was the Progressive Movement? Today s Task 35 Minutes: Work with your group to answer questions 1-7. You will have to present this, so know your stuff. 35 Minutes Create a poster for a gallery walk. What problems related to your topic did progressives want to address? What solutions did they propose? Where were they successful, and where were they not? Highlight specific people, groups, or vocab that are significant to your area.
Exit Ticket Exit Ticket Identify 2 specific successes of the Progressives and/or Populists. Identify 2 specific failures or shortcomings of the Progressives and/or Populists. What questions do you have about this project or the topic?
