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Child Labor: "...it is better for children to learn to work when they are little"
Kansas Historical Society, Library and Archives
A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast
Children's lives have changed dramatically in America in the last hundred years.
Today we take it for granted that children will attend public school and not work full-time, but in the early 1900's, laws regulating child labor were still evolving.
Hear what Kansas parents and business owners had to say about these laws when they first took effect.