Social How was the Social Be sure to support your opinion Is the Social Problem Problem of Problem addressed during with evidence from the lesson or still an issue today? the the Industrial Age (social your research. How? Industrial movement, law, etc.)? Age Child Labor Some of the first social Was the Social Problem addressed Child labor has been reform in the United States successfully? Both yes and no. around for so long and centered on passing laws to The first state child labor law was even though child prevent child labor. passed in 1836 in Massachusetts labor is illegal in most -In 1836 early trade unions which required children under 15 countries, children are proposed state minimum working in factories to attend still being controlled age laws. Union members school at least three months a and used by wealthy at the National Trades’ year. There were stricter laws company owners in Union Convention made passed after, limiting age in which places such as, Africa the first formal, public a child could work and the amount and Central Asia. proposal recommending of hours a child could work. that states establish a However, some groups overlooked minimum age for factory the issue of child labor in their work. fight for better wages and working conditions and, most of these laws were not consistently enforced. Tenement It became obvious that It was not addressed successfully. Tenement housing is Housing: building owners could When new tenements were not a problem today as Over receive more rent by constructed, builders cut costs by they don’t exist in the Crowding, crowding families together. using poor materials and taking same sense as they did Unsanitary So new tenements were shortcuts during construction. back then. Tenements constructed. Many buildings were made of are allegedly now wood and the new tenements were being used as uncomfortable and unsafe. museums. Pollution By the 1900s, many cities It was not addressed successfully. Pollution remains an had their own sanitation With new developed sanitation issue today. Pollution departments and had departments and new sewer takes many forms such created sewer systems. systems, the city residents still as, motor vehicles, suffered from unclean conditions. industry, and even Horses, New Yorks City’s main plain old littering. source of transportation, produced Every person about 2.5 million pounds of contributes to manure that dropped all along the pollution whether u streets. When the manure dried want to believe it or and turned to dust, it was blown not. around the city. In addition to manure polluting the air, factory chimneys released smoke and heat into the air. ???????

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02.07 Social Change: Assignment

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