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Q DISCUSSION + VIDEO: Lewis Hine and Progressive Labor Reform / MULTIPLE DEADLINES! - THE FIRST IS FRIDAY Points for this Forum: 30 Deadline for the Initial Post: before Friday is over (PST). (Hint: 12:01 a.m. on Saturday is a late Initial Post.) Deadline for ONE Response Post: by Sunday, before 11 p.m. PST Before students can see the responses of others, they must first post their complete Initial Post. Put all answers to the forum questions in the Initial Post before the Friday deadline. Post that completed Initial Post "initially," or risk losing half of the points offered in this forum. Please avoid making all of your posts on the same day.

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The history of labor in the U.S. is partly the history of children. It was children who worked in the first textile factories in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1840s. But before those factories appeared, children labored on family farms dating back to the first British colonies in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony. What Industrialization in the U.S. did between 1870 and 1900 was to employ children in ever greater numbers in industrial settings that were as dangerous as they were filthy.