CHAPTER VI. Protection of Children for Industrial Efficiency

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FOR INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY

Deficiency in protective legislation 151

Contempt for immigrant because of his economic standing 152

National indifference to condition of working children 154

Temptation to use child labor peculiar to this industrial epoch 155

Our sensibilities deadened by familiarity 155

Protection of the young the concern of government 156

Effect of premature labor on the child 158

Effect of child labor on the family 161

Effect on the industrial product 162

Effect on civilization 163

Intelligent labor the most valuable asset of our industrial prosperity 164

Results of England’s foreign commercial policy 165

Lack of consistency in the relation of the state to the child in the United States 166

Failure of public school system to connect with present industrial development 167

Correlation of new education with industrial situation 168

Child labor legislation will secure to child its proper play period 169

Power of association developed through play 171

Co-operation, not coercion, the ideal factory discipline 173

Actual factory system divorced from the instinct of workmanship 174

The activity of youth should be valuable assets for citizenship as well as industry 175

Military survivals in city government destroys this asset 176

The gang a training school for group morality 177

Concern of modern government in the development of its citizens 179