Children working in factories 1800s
[DOC File]Information Sheet 1 - Factories and Mines Acts in the 19th ...
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By 1800 it was common for children to work in factories or mines. Very few children went to school. Laws were passed throughout the 19th century to protect children working in factories and mines. They were largely due to the work of Robert Owen and Lord Shaftsbury who visited the factories and mines and were appalled by the way children were ...
[DOC File]From CHILD LABOR IN THE MINES
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Mar 07, 2007 · Two of the most glaring problems were harsh working conditions and child labor. In the 1800s, British children as young as seven worked in factories and mines. Eventually, the British Parliament passed laws to limit child labor. The following excerpts come from testimony given in 1842 as Parliament debated the problem of children working in mines.
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Toward the end of the 1800s, the education of children gained importance, and governments began regulating child labor. First, children’s working hours were cut back. Later, laws prohibited factories from hiring children.
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In the 1800s and early 1900s, it was much more common for school-age children to spend long days working, whether as farmhands in their parents’ fields, “newsies” (children who sold newspapers) on city streets, or machine operators in industrial factories.
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The lives of children in the United States have not always been what they are today. In the 1800s and early 1900s, it was much more common for school-age children to spend long days working, whether as farmhands in their parents’ fields, “newsies” (children who sold newspapers) on city streets, or machine operators in industrial factories.
[DOC File]The Organized Labor Movement - US History
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By the end of the 1800s, nearly one. in five children between the ages of 10 and 16 worked rather than attending. school. Conditions were especially harsh for these children. Many suffered. stunted physical and mental growth. By the 1890s, social workers began to. lobby to get children out of factories and into child care or schools. Eventually,
[DOCX File]5 - Industrial Revolution Fill-in-blank Notes.docx
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For the millions of workers who crowded into the new factories, the industrial age brought poverty and harsh living _____ ... These children often started working at age _____ or _____, a few as young as five. ... In the late 1800s, a new power source – electricity – replaced steam as the dominant source of …
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BBC Documentary: The Children Who Built Victorian Britain. 1. As the documentary plays, list the various reasons children of the Industrial Revolution were referred to as “the white slaves of England”: _____ _____ Children Working in Factories: 2.
[DOC File]The Industrial Revolution
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Today, most Americans look upon child labor as cruel. Yet in the 1800s, farm children also worked hard. Most people did not see much difference between children working in a factory or on a farm. Often, a child's wages were needed to help support the family. Long Hours . Working hours in the mills were long - 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
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