Child Labor in Factories
19th century England by:Jordan Floyd
Jobs Children Did in Factories
- Jobs children did in factories included matchmaking, textile mills, and hat making
- Factory owners saw children as cheap labor
- The normal work week was monday through sunday, 6 a.m to 8 p.m
- children would be beaten or fined for messing up
Hours, Food, and Working Conditions
- children would work hard for little or no pay
- children sometimes worked for nineteen hours with a one hour break
- normally it was just twelve to fourteen hours with the same break
- many accidents wold injure or even kill the child on the job
Punisments Children Faced
- the treatment of the factory children was often cruel and un unusual
- the factory owners would beat, verbally abuse, and not care for their safty on the job
- one common punishment was to be weighted
- weighted was where the overseer hung a heavy weight around the childs neck
Accidents That Often Happened
- injuries can permenitly damage the child and can even kill them
- Accidents that happen include rapid skeletal system growth, hearing loss, and development of the body
- each year nearly 2.7 million children die due to child labor
- the children had less experience and offten had more injures
Efforts to imporve/stop Chlid Labor
A social movement was established to protest child labor called reformers. Up until this point the supreme court took a lassiez fair approach. States started to pass laws restricting the age kids can work at. The keating-Owen act passed by Woodrow Wilson, banned any sale of any article made by children and regulated the number of hours they can work.