2006-12-21 05:49:17 · 4 answers · asked by JustMyLuck 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
There were no strict child labor laws during the 1920's in The United States.
Children in poor families generally started working around the age of ten...had been established in a job (mostly manual labor types) by the time they were 12.
Younger children could have been forced to work too but it was rare.
2006-12-21 05:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by Chick-A- Deedle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't find this on any website, its a piece of my actual family history....My grandmother, born in 1902, got her first job for 50 cents a week at a handkerchief factory when she was 11. Her brothers worked at the sawmill for 1.00 a week at ages 12 and 14. The year 1920? I don't know specifically about the 1920's, but the uniform child labor laws were not enacted until the 1930's...36, I think. Until then, children as young a 7 worked in the fields, and as young as 10 in the factories.
2006-12-21 15:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
14
2006-12-21 15:20:19 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where?
2006-12-21 13:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by Cister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋