Child+Labor

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Child Labor 2 3
 * made children work under bad consitions
 * easier on factory workers but very hard and not right for children
 * this was during the industrial revolution
 * some children died during this
 * where were all of the childrens parents during this

Draft By making child work during the industrial revoultion, since many factories needed lots of help they turned to children for work because jobs and work were in high demand. Child Labor during this era was really just starting out, they made kids work long hours and had cruel unusual punishments. Children were used as cheap labor in factories and other work places to help provide for thier familes. "When the industrial revolution first came to Britain and the U.S., there was a high demand for labor. Families quickly migrated from the rural farm areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work. Once they got there, things did not look as bright as they did. To survive in even the lowest level of poverty, families had to have every able member of the family go to work. This led to the high rise in child labor in factories. Children were not treated well, overworked, and underpaid for a long time before anyone tried to change things for them." www2,needham.k12.ma.us. Why did the parents allow their children to go to work at such young ages just to help support their families? Isnt that the parents job? While children were still forced to work they were told that they were supposed to get paid in order to help suport their families, but sometimes some of the factoies would get away with not paying the children at all and making them work very long hours with little or not break at all. During this time in the world most of the children really didnt understand what was going on and why they were being forced to work in order to help provide for thier families. But they still went out there and helped by working long 19 hour days with little to no break at all. If they worked too slow or inafficently the children would be punished or beaten. They were also in danger of getting injured on the job from the big, heavy equiptment. Most of the children that were forced to work is that Orphans who had no home and were most of the time treated like slaves. I can't believe that some of these kids even survied during this kind of work and punishment and horrible conditions, and that the adults who were working just sat around and watch this happen to these inocent children. Kids who did not work efficently or work as fast as some of the other people on the job were often punished in various ways that could often time cause alot of future mental and physical damage to the child and often times resulted in dealth. "The treatment of children in factories was often cruel and unusual, and the children's safety was generally neglected. The youngest children, who were not old enough to work the machines, were commonly sent to be assistants to textile workers. The people who the children served would beat them, verbally abuse them, and take no consideration for their safety. Both boys and girls who worked in factories were subject to beatings and other harsh forms of pain infliction. One common punishment for being late or not working up to quota would be to be "weighted." An overseer would tie a heavy weight to worker's neck, and have them walk up and down the factory aisles so the other children could see them and "take example." This could last up to an hour. Weighting could lead to serious injuries in the back and/or neck. Punishments such as this would often be dispensed under stringent rules. Boys were sometimes dragged naked from their beds and sent to the factories only holding their clothes, to be put on there. This was to make sure the boys would not be late, even by a few minutes." www2.needham.k12.ma.us, I think it is very bad how these children were treated when they were the ones who were forced to work and helping out the adults by doing and making some of thier work easier and go faster. Child Labor during the industial revolution was horrible, curel, and unusual. Children were foced to work in order to help out their families during a hard time in the economy. They were beaten abused and taken advantage of just to be kind and help out some of the adults who were strugling. Some children even died during this process and it wasnt until child labor was outlawed that it all finally stoped. But, even though it is illegall to make children work in some of the depts of the world factories and business still take advantage of children by forcing them to work.