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= Child for Hire: To Young for Work = Objective: The student will be able to analyze child labor in the 1800's. They will then be able to decide whether child labor could be a good thing, or is undoubtedly a bad thing

Objective Answer: Analysis of Child Labor: Child labor was when the industrial revolution happened, and children would go and work for money. They had a variety of jobs, such as working in mills, and being sails people. The children worked long and hard hours and where paid little amounts of money. Children could be abused verbally and physically when they worked. Pro Child Labor: Child labor was bad, but it can be good. If the children were given better working conditions, where not abused, and where paid more, then child labor would be a good thing. Also, it helps introduce kids into the world, and can give them lifelong experiences.

Against Child Labor: Child Labor was horrible. The children were abused, and where paid little for the long hours they worked. Children just need a time to be children, and work when they get older. They can learn their experiences when they get older. The parents should do the work, not the kids. If the condition where horrible when it first started, then there is no way that the conditions would be changed now.

Here is a website that supports the fact based part of my objective: []

This picture shows children working in a mill at a young age. Citations: Website: Amack, Chelsea. "Child Labor." 2005. Web page file. Picture : Hine, Lewis W. "Child Labor in America 1908-1912." //The History Place//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2012. .