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workplace became a regular occurrence, not the exception. The increase of mechanization, the division of labor, and the change in family dynamics all had an impact on pushing children into the workplace. Women Workers and Industrial Revolution. Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art 149, no. 3881 (Mar 15, 1930): 333, http://search.proquest.com/docview/9591783?accountid=12085. -The author talks about the change in the roles of women from the time of the Industrial Revolution. Women could not afford to stay home with their children, thus missing out on motherhood. Children did not have either one of their parents in the home because they needed the dual income to survive. Women moved out of the traditional role of mother and into the life of being a working parent. This change also affected the involvement on children in the workplace, because with their mothers at work children would be home alone, so many worked to support the family income.