The Revolution of Little Workers

CHILD LABOR

In the 19th century industrial revolution was an event that had caught world-wide attention, including United States. Industrial revolution lead to child labor, a very most important event that had effect our country in many great ways that had lead to ideas that is far unbelievable.

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Child Labor desingnation formerly applied to the pratice of employing young children in factories, now used denote the employment of minors generally, especially in work that may interfere with their education or endanger there health. throughtout the countries in all cultures children joined with their parent to work in the fields marketplace, factories, streets, and arounf home as soon as they were old enough to perform simple tasks. The use of child labor was not regarded a social problem until the intrduction of the factory system.

The factory system, is the idea of mass production of machine and people. Where more products can be made with lesser time. That caused the bosses to be greedy. And considering so many children were poor and had no sense of knowledge. they had hired children which they might consider as oid enough in the ages of 5's. The factory system used the children as if they were a machine. What the factory system had was a groups people working in different sections to put together orcontribute something to a product, and with more people teh products made was more than triple the amount, of what you can ge out of one person ahving to make a product.

Children working in factory were endangering there lives, their health wer getting worser and worser by the day they work. The air and status of the place in the factorys was worser than a dump, the area they were working is polluted with poisonous gases and toxins, which contains cholera and tuberculosis as the machines are operating, floating around in the air they breath in. As they spend more time in the factories they lose another finger, toe or maybe a whole arm if their body parts were mistakinly jammed in the machines. But they continue to work and work for just a couples of cents a day to pay for their heating, electricity, rent, food, and everyday needs.

They couldn't complain or switch jobs because if they were to complain, they would get fired and where else would they be able to find a job. They couldn't switch jobs because at the beginning they wrer only taught to learn one skill that was assgined to them, and they just knew that only skill.

The population of men were dtropping because most of them had daring and dangerous jobs that was risky, and they left their jobs working in agricultures and went to work in glass factory where the air is contaminated and polluted with glass partocles and toxins. Most worked as miners, that was needed to use explosives to blow up mountains and rocks, if ther wrer unlucky they might get caught in the explosions.

There living conditions are crude and their chances for education minimal. The meager income they bring home was enough for survival of their families. Frequently, these families lack the basic necessities of life adequate food, decent clothing, and shelter, even water for bathing.