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Factory System In The 1800s

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I believe that the factory system in the 1800s were not right. According to John Birley children were beaten and treated very poorly at the mill he worked at as a child. In the article it states that the children worked from five in the morning till nine or ten at night. And on Saturday they worked till eleven or twelve o’clock. These conditions are not right because the children had school and did not have enough time to do anything they wanted to do like little kids today.

Another reason I believe that the factory system in the 1800s were not right is that the children’s work conditions were so bad that John Birley sent an letter to Bethnal Green parish to let the men know how bad the conditions were. John also was beaten so bad in the
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