Daniel Tope is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida State University. He studies politics, work, and the US labor movement. His recent research focuses on the political determinants of union decline and the role of racial threat in state-level politics....
Learn about child labor during the Industrial Revolution and the reaction against it in the Progressive Era. Discover how activists and reformers promoted new laws. Related to this Question What were the goals of the labor movement? What motivated the child labor movement?
In politics, its enhanced power led the union movement not to a new departure but to a variant on the policy of nonpartisanship. As far back as the Progressive Era, organized labor had been drifting toward the Democratic party, partly because of the latter’s greater programmatic appeal, perh...
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“I’m a young Black woman in this role, and I think that’s important,” Crentsil says. “I want to be able to work with other talented Black people in leadership roles in the labor movement and outside of the labor movement.” ...
Labour’s fortunes varied at different times and places, but the end result was unquestionably an arrested labour movement, with union penetration settling at roughly 10 percent of the nonagricultural labour force. As welfare capitalism took hold in the New Era of the 1920s, the more advanced ...
From 1902 to 1915, child labor committees emphasized reform through state legislatures. Many laws restricting child labor were passed as part of theProgressive Era reform movement. But many Southern states resisted, leading to the decision to work for a federal child labor law. While Congress pass...
All that being said, the legislature of anti-child labor laws may mostly have been due to circumstance. There was a huge popular movement to get children out of factories and into schools and to protect workers from dangerous conditions, but child labor in the U.S. was only at its peak ...
The child labor reform movement of the Gilded Age and early Progressive Era reflected not only moral and economic forces but also the dramatic advances during the later decades of the 19th century in scientific knowledge concerning children’s biological and psychological vulnerability to environmental ...
From 1902 to 1915, child labor committees emphasized reform through state legislatures. Many laws restricting child labor were passed as part of theProgressive Era reform movement. But many Southern states resisted, leading to the decision to work for a federal child labor law. While Congress pass...