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Alabama's Child Labor Affidavits and Child Labor Registers offer an unique record from which to acquire a birth date and place for persons born around the 1890's. | Alabama's Child Labor Affidavits and Child Labor Registers offer an unique record from which to acquire a birth date and place for persons born around the 1890's. | ||
[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 | [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, yeilded to societial pressures of the day regarding child labor. Children were being used extensively in manufacturing in the United States. Southern states employed children at more than double the rate of northern industrial states. | ||
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. | 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. | ||