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Alabama's Child Labor Affidavits and Child Labor Registers offer a unique record from which to acquire a birth date and place for persons born around the 1890s. | Alabama's Child Labor Affidavits and Child Labor Registers offer a unique record from which to acquire a birth date and place for persons born around the 1890s. | ||
[http://books.google.com/books?id=y9gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=child+labor+affidavits+alabama&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false The Code of Alabama], Adopted by Act of the Legislature of Alabama; approved July 27th, 1907, yielded to societal pressures of the day regarding child labor. Children were being used widely in manufacturing in the United States. Southern states employed children at four to five times the rate of New England textile states. Source: | [http://books.google.com/books?id=y9gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=child+labor+affidavits+alabama&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false The Code of Alabama], Adopted by Act of the Legislature of Alabama; approved July 27th, 1907, yielded to societal pressures of the day regarding child labor. Children were being used widely in manufacturing in the United States. Southern states employed children at four to five times the rate of New England textile states. Source: 1910 Report on Condition of Women and Child Wage-Earners in the United States, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3sgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=child+labor+affidavits+alabama&source=bl&ots=_2nENN1Ypm&sig=WNe75eD7IKdxmiyIcddnAO5riiY&hl=en&ei=Gw7ISpqeBYLQsQOVi8SiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=child%20labor%20affidavits%20alabama&f=false Volume 1: Cotton Textile Industry], published by the U.S. Commissioner of Labor. | ||
[http://books.google.com/books?id=y9gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374&lpg=PA374&dq=child+labor+affidavits+alabama&source=bl&ots=7fRuDoGKu9&sig=Y1xqLv4uhs9U7hiWtCkRj2PtLyU&hl=en&ei=0K7HSu3hAovcsgP0vryiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 184] of the 1907 Alabama code sought to regulate the employment of child labor in mills, factories and manufacturing establishments. It provided that no child under the age of 12 should be employed in manufacturing. Cotton mills used child labor extensively in Alabama in the late 19th century and early 20th century, with one in five employees reported as child laborers in 1910. | [http://books.google.com/books?id=y9gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374&lpg=PA374&dq=child+labor+affidavits+alabama&source=bl&ots=7fRuDoGKu9&sig=Y1xqLv4uhs9U7hiWtCkRj2PtLyU&hl=en&ei=0K7HSu3hAovcsgP0vryiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false Chapter 184] of the 1907 Alabama code sought to regulate the employment of child labor in mills, factories and manufacturing establishments. It provided that no child under the age of 12 should be employed in manufacturing. Cotton mills used child labor extensively in Alabama in the late 19th century and early 20th century, with one in five employees reported as child laborers in 1910. | ||
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The Family History Library has acquired on microfilm Child Labor Affidavits and Registers, recording the birthplace and birth date of employed children ages 12 to 18, from ten of Alabama's 67 counties; Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, DeKalb, Elmore, Marengo, Mobile, Perry and Tallapoosa. | The Family History Library has acquired on microfilm Child Labor Affidavits and Registers, recording the birthplace and birth date of employed children ages 12 to 18, from ten of Alabama's 67 counties; Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, DeKalb, Elmore, Marengo, Mobile, Perry and Tallapoosa. | ||
The above sources are listed in the | The above sources are listed in the [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3Achild%20%2Bkeywords%3Alabor Keyword Search] of the FamilySearch Catalog under Child Labor. They can also be found in the FamilySearch Catalog under these titles and links: | ||
:{{FHL|559698|title-id|disp=Alabama, Autauga - Court records}} | :{{FHL|559698|title-id|disp=Alabama, Autauga - Court records}} | ||
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