Employers Want to Bring Child Labor to Some of the Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country

Children participate in Philadelphia’s 1903 textile strike on June 18. Some 46,000 textile workers, including many youths, staged what was the largest strike in city history to demand a reduced work week of 55 hours and a ban on night work by women and children. Out of the strike was born Mother Jones’s “March of the Mill Children” to Washington, D.C. in July