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Artisan work was important in Italy into the 20th century. Industry was mostly concentrated in the north. Fathers would involve the children in the workshops. A variety of crafts were involved including carpentry, leather work, metal working, and others. This often included the children in the family who might begin working at an early age. Thus they may have been taken out of school or not allowed to attend at all.
Sometimes children attend school and they help in the family work. Sometimes children don't attend school. That was a great problem, especially in some southern regions.
These craftsmen were variously successful. Some were abjectly poor. The fathers mkight have to seek work as a laborer to supplement the home workshop. The childen also may have had to work outside the home. It was virtually impossible to reulate child labor in these home workshops so it continued to be a problem after child lsbor in industry was regulated. Only compulsory school attendance laws limited such labor, at least until the prosperity following Wirld War II began to change Italian society.
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