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Laws governing child labor protected children from working in factories where they were exposed to unsafe working conditions, long work hours, and low pay. Many children were forced to drop out of school due to long work hours. School attendance rose after child labor laws were enacted.

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it effected the econmy because the children were very poor and they needed to work but not like this

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