Hi this is Veronica M. from 20th centery period 6. In the 1900s many women where concerned for the safety of children who worked in factories. Women were more responsible for the care and well being of children. The women were outrage because the child labor. One of these women named Florence Kelley, was a leader against child labor. In the 1891, Kelley worked at the Jane Addames’s Hull House. There she investigated and reported the uses of child labor. “In the stores on the west side large numbers of young girls are employed 13 hours a day on Saturdays.” said Kelley. Children who worked in tobacco companies suffered from nicotine poisoning and the children from painting industries breathed in toxic arsenic fumes causing them to suffer in many ways. Kelley pressed the government to outlaw the use of child labor. Today you have to be 16 to work and have a work permit from your school and parental consent. Kelley helped many childrens lives in America by making the government think about how working in poor conditions hurt children.