The industrial revolution crated an demand for child Labor. Children had always worked alongside their parents but before the 19th century they usually worked part time in factories. In the new textile factories children were often made to work very long hours often 12 hours a day.
The government was aware of the problem and in 1819 they passed an act that made it illegal for children under 9 to work in cotton mills. There were no factory inspectors to check the cotton mills. Children under 9 were banned from working in textile mills. Children 9 to 13 were not allowed to work for more than 12 hours a day. Nobody under 18 was allowed to work at night
The diplced working classes, from the seventeenth century on, tok it for granted that a family would not be able to support itself if the children were not employed. In Defoe’s day he thought it admirable that in the vicinity of Halifax scarcely anybody above the age of 4 was idle. The children of the poor were forced by economic conditions to work, as Dickens, with his family in debtor’s prison, worked at the age 12 in the Blacking Factory
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Child Labor
Wyatt Newton
Brandon Solomonov
The industrial revolution crated an demand for child Labor. Children had always worked alongside their parents but before the 19th century they usually worked part time in factories. In the new textile factories children were often made to work very long hours often 12 hours a day.
The government was aware of the problem and in 1819 they passed an act that made it illegal for children under 9 to work in cotton mills. There were no factory inspectors to check the cotton mills. Children under 9 were banned from working in textile mills. Children 9 to 13 were not allowed to work for more than 12 hours a day. Nobody under 18 was allowed to work at night
The diplced working classes, from the seventeenth century on, tok it for granted that a family would not be able to support itself if the children were not employed. In Defoe’s day he thought it admirable that in the vicinity of Halifax scarcely anybody above the age of 4 was idle. The children of the poor were forced by economic conditions to work, as Dickens, with his family in debtor’s prison, worked at the age 12 in the Blacking Factory
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