Chapter 13: The Progressive Era "Growing Up Too Fast" Introduction      In this chapter, you learned about efforts to reform some of society's ills around the turn of the twentieth century. Among the problems that reformers addressed was child labor. Progressive activists worked to establish minimum age requirements in the workplace. As a result, child labor eventually became strictly regulated in the United States. However, the use of young children in the workplace still goes on today in countries around the world. Go to the Internet to examine this problem more closely. Destination Title: International Labour Organization Note: Clicking on the link above will launch a new browser window. Need help using your browser for this activity? Click here for tips. Directions Start at the International Labour Organization Web site. Click on Statistics on Working Children and Hazardous Child Labour in Brief. Read the introduction. Then examine several of the tables and bar charts and answer the following questions. 1. According to Table 1, how many children workers were there worldwide in 1995? Which region employed the greatest percentage of them? 2. According to Bar Chart 3, which industry uses the most child workers? 3. According to Table 7, what percentage of children have no day off from work and no free time? 4. Discuss the issue of child labor with the rest of the class. Why is it detrimental to a child? What can be done to eradicate child labor?