+1982 excerpt from chapter 10 "Pioneer labor legislation in Illinois
In Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
Our very first Christmas at Hull-House, when we as yet knew nothing of child labor, a number of little girls refused the candy which was offered them as part of the Christmas good cheer, saying simply that they "worked in a candy factory and could not bear the sight of it." We discovered that for six weeks they had worked from seven in the morning until nine at night, and they were exhausted as well as satiated. The sharp consciousness of stern economic conditions was thus thrust upon us in the midst of the season of good will.
2. In Twenty Years at Hull House, how does Jane Addams introduce and develop the idea that child labor was a serious and deadly problem in the early twentieth century? What connection is made between these ideas and Addams’s decision to investigate child labor in Chicago? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs 3. What details do the excerpt from Twenty Years at Hull-House and the illustration reveal about child labor? How are the details in each account similar? How are they different? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.
3. What details do the excerpt from Twenty Years at Hull-House and the illustration reveal about child labor? How are the details in each account similar? How are they different? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs.
