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Child Labor During The Industrial Revolution

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The emergence of the feminist movement, the widespread use of child labor during the Industrial Revolution, and the cultural impact of the Transatlantic slave trade in the America’s reveal insight into the economic, political, social, and cultural forces which have helped shape history. The 19th century was a time of profound political and social change which set the stage for the emergence of the feminist movement; a movement driven by intersecting forces such as urbanization, industrialization, and evolving ideas. Concurrently, the Industrial Revolution, while a positively transformative era of economic growth and innovation, brought many social challenges, one of the most significant was the use of child labor; a cruel reality for many children …show more content…

Child labor has almost always been widely practiced, but it reached its peak during the Industrial Revolution when factories and mines were in need of employees. Children were the ideal candidates since they were inexpensive, which would maximize profits. Poverty-stricken families relied on their children as well as other members to earn income in order to make ends meet. Unfortunately, the children were forced to work in miserable conditions which involved unsafe work conditions, uncleanliness, and brutally long hours. The long hours contributed to the children being unable to attend school, which only made the cycle of poverty worse and more difficult to break. Technological advancements in industrial machinery made it so that even a child could operate it, this made child labor look even more appealing to those in charge of industrial factories. According to a History.com article titled “Child Labor: Laws & Definition”, 18% of all American workers in the year 1900 were under the age of 16; prior and during this time there was hardly any legislation or regulation to protect

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By 1900, eighteen percent of American workers were under 16 which is a significant number of kids. Luckily there were education reforms that prompted many that primary education is vital for children but this applied in only some states. Businesses then decided to industrialize, creating more machines and advancing technology. Efforts were put in by the National Child Labor Committee to eradicate child

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The rise of child labor in the United States began in the late 1700s to the early 1800s when factory power-driven machines were invented, almost eradicating the need for hand work on items made in factories. Even though there were machines to replace the human work, the machines still needed to be operated by people. Operating the machines did not require brute strength, and adults needed to be payed more money, so factories used children for their work. Why did children work in the factories? Did the factories abduct them or did they do it by choice?

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Why was child labour an issue during the Industrial Revolution? During the Industrial Revolution, various factories required large amounts of labour for simple task, like pushing some buttons on a machine or maintaining certain machines. With factories not willing to pay highly qualified individuals, this led to the mass consumption of cheap labour being utilised. Factories shifted from hiring men who were highly qualified in their role to children and women, who were given simple instructions they had to carry out. Among other benefits factory owners decided to hire kids for various reasons, some include: lack of authority ( cant unionise), willingness to take any pay (underpay them) and because of their small and nimble size compared to

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Child Labour was not an establishment formed from The Industrial Revolution, but rather industrialization that expanded the demand for labour. Oxfords’ Professor Jane Humphries says that estimated by early 19th century England had more than 1 million child workers, 350,00 were 7 to 10 year olds and made up 15% of the total labour force. Each have experienced such traumatic involvement and hardships. Charles Aberdeen shared his experience when he worked in the Manchester Cotton Factory in 1882.

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The tremendous increase of child labor in the U.S occurred in the late 1700s and early 1800s. While child labor in the U.S has always existed it was usually in family business or agriculture, but during the Industrial Revolution, child labor reached its extreme due to new innovations and ideas. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution brought, urbanization, factories, jobs, more immigrants, and it replaced hand labor for making manufacture items. Children from poor families had to go and work to support their families because that was the only way they can survive. Also, children provided cheap labor that benefited factory owners during that time.

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Child labor in Victorian England The children would work all day and would not get much rest, they would work to help their families. Also they would work in coal mines in the dark. Child labor in Victorian England was awful because it said that the children would climb chimneys and clean them also they would work in coal mines in the dark. What caused children to work was that in england because they thought that the kids were slaves and that they needed more young people to work so they chose the children. In (www.VictorianChildren.org/Victorian-child labor/) it said that “children were the right people to help people work and they were the norm of the 1800’s”.

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Child Labor is the practice of hiring children to work in factories or other professions. Child Labor Laws in the United States address issues related to the employment and welfare of working minors and children in the U.S. Many of these children often came from poor families and were immigrants or orphans. A various amount of owners chose to employ children because they could be paid less than adults and were smaller so that they could fit between machines or even inside when the machinery needed to be clean, they were dirty and sometime very dangerous. Being forced to work was hard for children to possess an education.

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In 1841 there was a child labor law that was made relevant in stores hiring twenty or more workers. It had set a minimum age for employment of at least eight years. The law also banned kids under twelve years of age from working more than eight hours per day, and allowed children of twelve to sixteen to work a maximum of twelve hours a day. Although American has set a law to stop child labor, there still remains multiple countries without any child labor laws.

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This is firstly caused by size since a man can easily overpower a small child. Secondly, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, children were not considered powerful at all. They were meant to work just as their parents did and “earn respect” by working for the well-being of their family. Factory managers could easily trick and overpower children into doing whatever they wanted the infants to do and they saw it and used it as an advantage. This sense of power also produced "safety" within the factory for the management since the children would not rebel and cause a halt in the production line regarding their deplorable working conditions simply because they were not heard at the time, so factory managers were confident about their harsh working hours and conditions imposed on the infants.

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