Excerpt from Child Labor, Outlines for Study: Separate No. 4, Child Care and Child Welfare, Prepared by the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor, in Cooperation With the Federal Board for Vocational Education I. As in England prior to the establishment of the factory system, child labor was very common. The conditions under which children worked were not obviously harmful, and provision was usually made for a certain amount of education. Since work made children self-supporting and kept them from the temptations of idleness, child labor was regarded by prao tically everyone as economically necessary and morally desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.