“crouched over the coal chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate. i once tried to do the work a twelve-year old boy was doing day after day, for ten hours at a stretch, for sixty cents a day. the gloom appalled me.” - john spargo what development did the conditions described in this quotation lead to? a migration from the countryside to cities passage of child labor laws ideas of the enlightenment spread of imperialism to africa