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American Child Labors Assistance During Progressive Movement

Posted on:2011-08-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q H ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360308965128Subject:World History
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Child labors has always been the object of criticism by people as an evil in history, especially in the United States, which is a country that has a promotion of freedom and democratic, it is in tolerated for child labors.In the Progressive Movement the United States launched a vigorous for child labors assistance.The United States carried out analysis and research assistance for the child labors during this period by the basic theory of history, sociology and social security.The article defines a number of technical terms, and through the research work at home and abroad, shows the reader the latest research about the child labors assistance during this period, analyzes the deficiencies on these studies and defects about the contact, summary the rescue of child labor in theory and practice.In these studies based on the analysis, the article reviews the progress of movement of assistance before the Progressive Movement, and has the Christian ideology, Marxism and Darwinism in Victoria on the impact of child labor, describes the spread of child labors and the degree of persecution, introduces the reliefspecific measures of child labors, in particular the development of legislative relief.But child labors has not achieved well aid in this period, the number of child labors still large.The child labors still existed and further development in the Progressive Movement.Rapid development of industrialization and urbanization made the factory a significant increase in the demand for child labors, and child labors had continued to spread, while the working environment was still poor. In view of this situation, American ideologics had changed, people changed attitudes about child labors, and began to sympathize child labors and have many new ideas of child labors relief, including the theory of social guide,laissez-faire economytheory and the philosophy of pragmatism, which was importent for the child relief.Under the guidance of these ideas, the United States launched a vigorous society movement about child labors assistance. Church first raised the banner of child labors relief, which was based on the formation of social development, and the church began to change their thinking and understanding to carry out the social gospel movement, and actively participate in social life, including child labors assistance in their aid efforts; House of urban settlement assistance and women's club was the organization that through its own specific characteristics, went to the community in the implementation of specific activities, and looked forward to change child labors conditions through its own efforts; many of the community which was well-known were through their own efforts to rescue child labors, and through their influence to affect the magnification of these relief; in the church relief and aid of civil society, the U.S. government had great pressure, and then made the legislation on child labors protection, and made civil aid in legislative form.Through this series of relief, child labors situation had changed, and achieved certain results.Child assistance during this period opened the prelude to the 20th century, and the close integration of thought and action, the emergence of a large number of creative groups and individuals interact with government activities in this period were the characteristics of child labors assistance, but there were also inadequate relief of child labors about legislative relief capriciously in the federal government, and law enforcement greatly reduced, and all kinds of contradictions that exist in civil society, which were affected further development of the child labors relief.However, there were still a lot of reference about child labors relief in this period, and had an important role on studing the United States for the relief of child labors development and understanding of social development.
Keywords/Search Tags:Progressive Movement, child labor, social assistance, social welfare, Government legislation
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