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Excerpt from Wartime Employment of Boys and Girls Under 18
How many young workers between 14 and 18 years of age are employed?
No count of children and young persons at work has been made since early in 1940, when the census showed somewhat less than boys and girls between 14 and 18 years of age employed of 14 and 15 and of 16 and 17 years.2 The only recent information is from rough estimates based on sample trends since that time, which indicate a total of around 2 million in January 1943, and around 3 million in the preceding July, during the school vacation period. Of these, about a fourth, according to the same rough estimates, were in the younger age group, that is, 14 or 15 years of age.
Reports of employment and age certificates, issued in most States for children going to work, give clues to the upward trend since 1940. It must be borne in mind, however, that they show only the numbers obtaining certificates during a given period and not the number actually at work at any particular time. Though they do not tell the whole story, they indicate that in the year 1940, at the very least more than minors between 14 and 18 years of age, and in 1941 more than entered their first full-time or part-time jobs. During the first 6 months of 1942 these young workers were joined by more than children 14 and 15 years old and more than young persons 16 and 17 years old. Incomplete reports for July to December 1942 already show a total of more than minors between 14 and 18 years of age entering full-time or part-time employment during this 6-month period; about were 14 or 15 years of age.
The number of boys and girls of these ages who obtained certificates for full-time or part-time jobs in 1941 was more than double the 1940 total, the increase for the 16 and 17 -year-olds being 132 percent and for those of 14 and 15 years, 77 percent. The number between 14 and 18 years of age obtaining certificates in the first 6 months of 1942 was about 60 percent greater for both 14 and 15-year-old and 16 and 17 -year-old workers than in the corresponding period of 1941.
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