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…by chemicals. The factory owners frequently took advantage of the desperate workers, and a high unemployment rate ensured that wages would not increase. Education was not widely available, and child labor was also practiced. Many new political ideas were formed…

…this increasingly detrimental problem? First of all, the workplace has become increasingly automated. Back in the olden times, people had to do manual labor and actually exercise most of the day. Today, machines do the hard work so one does not have to do manual labor…

…. when we would stop for an hour for dinner. After an hour we would go back to work until about 8p.m. . (Sources of Western Tradition – Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor – Perry, page 139) I was very lucky that my parents were able to protect me…

…What is life? Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines life and the state of being alive as "human activity; time when something functions; animated; full of life; being in existence." The 'No Child Left Behind Act' teaches in public schools that a twenty…

…Chinese exclusion, policy of prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States; initiated in 1882. From the time of the U.S. acquisition of California (1848) there had been a large influx of Chinese laborers to the Pacific coast…

…12 hours a day. No child under 9 could work in any factory Negative Effects of the Industrial Revolution *Disrupted business People left other occupations and came to spinning for the sake of high wages *Poor working conditions *Child labor *Quantity…

…. Education replaces child labor, and children’s reliance on education rather than parental resources increases their freedom in mate selection. Fertility declines as children lose value in the household economy. Female employment declines in industries…

…developing nation societies divorce remains hard for working-class couples to obtain, but consensual unions and informal separations are common. Education replaces child labor, and children?s reliance on education rather than parental resources increases…

…in the work force to child raising and post-traumatic stress would make this return to "normalcy" very troublesome. This laborious task of reintegrating into American culture would eventually lead to problems in the gender relations in post war America…

…!" At one point Fugui tells his second child, Fengxia, that "the chick will grow into a goose, the goose into a sheep, the sheep will turn into a ox, and the ox… the ox will turn into communism. And everyday we'll have dumplings and chicken…" Explaining to his…