The Debate Over Child Labor

Ruth Holland

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'1908 photo of two girls from North Carolina who work in the textile mills. The oldest girl works 10 hour days for fifty cents, the younger works more irregularly.' - Mill Child, Ruth Holland

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“It was hard work. The days were long and full. There wasn’t much time for play in the spring and fall when the farm needed special tending. It was hard work for the weaver and it was hard work for the spinners, too. Because everyone who lived in the cottage worked at its industry.”  
~ Ruth Holland, author of Mill Child


Both farm life and industrial life was hard but it was hard for the farm life people to get used to the new life of industry.