CHILD LABOR

FACTS OF CHILD LABOR

• Children started working in 1769
• Most children were orphans
• A law passed that set the age to 9 years old
• A law was passed to make the max amount of hours for children and women 10 hours.

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• In cotton textile industries, 54.5 % were under the age of 19
• 4,000 children worked in the mills of Manchester
• In mining industries, child labor ranged from 19-40%
• Child labor was cheap

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• Children were labeled as "parish apprentice children"
• Children had poor, harsh conditions to work in
• Most children that worked were under ten
• Children would work massive amount of hours just for a shilling, 10-14 hours

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• After the steam engine, mills could run more efficiently
• If the children were late they were whipped
• When they worked, they breathed in deadly toxins
• The oddest children that worked were 21

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• More children worked than men and women
• A lot of children started at ages 5-6
• In the early 1900's child labor was declining
• Kids would get killed while fixing machines

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