Child Labor by Caley Vancil

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Child Labor

Published on Dec 03, 2015

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The term “child labor” generally refers to children who work to produce a good or a service which can be sold for money in the marketplace regardless of whether or not they are paid for their work
The two most common forms of child labor have become labeled as “Parish apprentice children” and “free labour children
The “Parish apprentice children” were some of the first children to be brought into the factory setting.
as much one-third of the workers in the country mills during 1784 were perish apprentice children.

There were no laws relating to the running of factories as there had been no need for them before.
Arriving late for work could lead to a large fine and possibly a beating.
Dozing at a machine could result in the accidental loss of a limb.
Some parents needed their children to go out to work from a young age, as they needed the money to help feed the family.

Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with a one-hour total break
Most time, children were not payed as much as they should have been.
Child labor kept cost of productivity low and profits high.
Owners of the factories these children lived in controlled all aspects of their life.
Some children as young as 5 worked during the industrial revolution.

approximately 49% of the workforce was under 20
. In rural areas, children as young as five or six joined women in 'agricultural gangs' that worked in fields often a long way from their homes
It was also during this period that people started to recognise the importance of education for children

Child labour was not an invention of the Industrial Revolution. Poor children have always started work as soon as their parents could find employment for them.
In industrial areas, children started work on average at eight and a half years old.
Their work consisted of bird-scaring, sowing crops and driving horses. In towns, most boys were employed as errand boys or chimney sweeps, though once again finding employers who wanted to hire a child could be a difficult task.
Longing hours, dirty environment and dangerous working conditions were some of the problems child labor-ers faced.