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... The census report helped to spark a national movement to end child labor in the United States. It took organizational form in 1904 with the founding of the National Child Labor Committee. The movement combined moral outrage, new interpretations of the value of childhood, and dire warnings about racial and national decay to mobilize support for strict regulation of child labor. Equating child labor with slavery, some argued that the country had not faced such a serious moral problem since the Civil War.
The reaction to revelations about the extent of child labor in the United States was part of a more general questioning of traditional ideas of progress.
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