Child Workforce helps struggling parents pay their bills and earn some extra money for food or survival. Child labor is a good thing because it helps families who need money to get out of debt and who need it for daily life. Children are known to help their parents by doing household chores, small favors, and yard work. Children work like their parents and are paid wage and hour, some people pay minimum wage and others pay what the work is really worth. In Pennsylvania, children were allowed to work in factories starting at age 8. In the 18th century, factories depended on the presence and labor of children every day. Families moved to rural areas in the north to settle on farms in search of new industrialized places to make a living. Poor families had to find a good job to support their family. Factory owners liked child labor because it was cheap and they could support their ideas by saying it was good for the country/state and the economy. Child labor was very useful, as they could fit into smaller areas that the average human could not enter. Children were used to solve small problems in the machines that could become a bigger problem, because the adult man's hand could not fit into the machines. children from smaller areas were very useful to factory owners. factory owners also found it much easier to get them to work more easily and to manage and control their feelings about making them work more. Landlords and parents could send them out to find work and trade them for older or younger people so they could earn more money and live better for each other. Many families had to depend on children to go out, work, and earn money. for the family...... middle of paper ...... more and more educated in matters of work, and as they grew up, they worked better and knew the rules of what to do and not to do. “Federal and state child labor laws that govern agricultural employment reflect this belief that they are far less restrictive than those applied to other industries. Children working on farms owned or operated by a parent are completely exempt from federal child labor provisions in agriculture, and other adolescent farm workers are permitted to perform hazardous work at younger ages than their counterparts who work in other industries. (Child Labor Laws and Enforcement). “From the early 1800s, children were an integral part of the textile industry workforce. In the Manayunk district of Philadelphia, children as young as seven participated in spinning and weaving cotton and woolen goods. (Kenneth, Wolensky and Judith, Rich)