Who is Affected Most Negatively? Lots of people are affected in lots of different ways. From multiple complaints, it was said that at one point there were twelve men and women living in a twelve foot square room and that there were merely three beds to supply them all. There was photographic evidence given of a very cramped home just like this one. Source twenty shows that families, including pregnant women and children, all had to work long hours, came home exhausted and the children could earn as little as three pence per day. The number of child deaths was astonishingly high because of child labour. In source twenty three, it says that the children had lice, ruined clothing, and they didn’t have any shoes. This, sadly, was not surprising