Industrialization In 1984

During the Industrial Revolution, in which manufacturing processes and technologies advanced significantly, creating a demand for a labor increase, in order to fulfill business ideals, such as making as much money as owners can. This caused businesses to use children as a source of labor, even if the working conditions were dangerous. Since then, child labor reduced significantly, but is still used in modern society in certain areas, such as Africa. In 1949, George Orwell released a book called 1984. In this book, society has reached a point in time where every person is watched 24/7 by a machine called a telescreen and self expression was illegal. If self expression were to occur, the individual performing the so-called crime would be vaporized,

Specifically, according to George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, many people would give up power no matter the conqueror, even if the conqueror was constantly changing. George Orwell shows this in his book 1984 when the book states, “The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually form conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labor power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely” (Orwell 187). Since the inhabitants of the areas mentioned in the book, which are equatorial Africa, the Middle East, Southern India, or Indonesian Archipelago, don’t put any resistance to Oceania, Eastasia, or Eurasia, the three superstates in the book, they choose to give up any influence they have to the ruling authority, which changes because of the continuous war among each other, which leads to the dangerous society to citizens as explained in the book because there is no one to resist the regime in place. Another case in point, according to the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency, about 70% of children between the ages of 5 and 17 are victims of child labor. Specifically, the International Labour Organization states, “Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment. Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour” (International Labour Organization). Although there are enough people in the world that could stop child labor, citizens neglect the steps needed to end child labor, which gives the