INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

CHILD LABOR IN GREAT BRITIAN

• Children were cheaper to employ
• Children were complient
• They would work for extremely long shifts
• Many children would be killed or injured on the job
• The youngest children would become assistants snd were often beaten

CHILD LABOR

• Severe punishments would occure for being late
• Children were small and could fit in the tight spaces that adults could not
• Child Labor limitations began being made in 1833
• 1833 the Factory Act was passed by Parliament
• Now, children ages 9-13 were only allowed to work 8 hours a day

CHILD LABOR

• Children ages 14 to 18 could only work up to 12 hours a day
• Children under the age of 9 were not allowed to work at all
• Also, children were required to attend school for atleast 2 hours a day
• At this point education was slowly becoming important
• Most children working in factories would lose their limbs

CHILD LABOR

• Men often had to compete with for their jobs
• In rural areas, families worked together all day long
• When Factories came about, families would often be broken up
• Many young women would get there hair caught in the machines and be scalped or die
• Children working in mines would often have to push coal carts through tiny tunnels