Apprenticeships
Before factories were popular, this was how many young men learned a skilled trade like blacksmithing or carpentry.
What is an apprenticeship?
Factory workers often worked this many hours a week—20 more than today’s typical full-time job.
What is 60 hours?
Many working children came from these types of families.
What is poor?
Factory jobs were risky and caused the U.S. to have more of these than any other industrial nation by 1900.
What are work accidents?
Apprentices were taught by these experienced workers.
Who are mentors?
Factories were dangerous because they were poorly lit, crowded, and had exits that were often this.
What is locked or blocked?
These young boys sold newspapers in cities and were called this nickname.
What are newsies?
This many U.S. workers were injured on the job each year by 1900.
What is 500,000?
This became less common once factory jobs became more available in the North.
What are apprenticeships?
One big health danger in factories was breathing in this and being around loud machines.
What are toxic dust and noise?
Between 1890 and 1910, about 1 in this many kids ages 10–15 had jobs.
What is 1 in 5?
Most companies offered no payment or this if a worker was killed or hurt.
What is compensation?
One reason young people stopped being apprentices was because this took too long and paid very little.
What is mastering a trade?
This safety equipment, like gloves and goggles, was rarely provided to factory workers.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
Children worked in dangerous places like farms, mines, and these cloth-making buildings.
What are cotton or textile mills?
These were the types of jobs apprentices often had to do at the beginning, like cleaning and taking out trash.
What are the most undesirable tasks?
In the 1900s, about this many workers were killed at work each year in the U.S.
What is 35,000
This photographer took powerful photos of working kids between 1908 and 1912.
Who is Lewis W. Hine?