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The Exploitation of Children in the Second Industrial Revolution
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The second industrial revolution brought about an increase in child labor due to the rise of the steel industry, coal mining and railroads, where four to ten-year-olds worked 12 to 25 cents a day for long hours. Unregulated capitalism enabled the economy to take advantage of child labor before it eventually diminished.

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