CHILD LABOR IN BRITAIN DURING INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PARISH APPRENTICE CHILDREN

• Orphans that were free labor
• 2.Children from the lower class,free labor childern
• These kids were barely making it by, and worked for almost nothing

Working conditions of mill children: 12- 16 hour days somtimes,and hot stinky dark, and over populated

COTTON FACTORYIES

• 1/2 the peole woking in factories started at 10
• 29percent started befor they were 10
• Industries owners liked childeren because:
• They said they were more expert,active

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Textile industries in 1841 had almost. 107,000 children employed in Britain

ENDING OF CHILD LABOR

• 1819 the cotton factories, made
• Law that only childeren 9and older could work
• And they could only work 12hours
• Then in 1833 a ten hour law was made

CHILDEREN WERE MOST WANTED BECAUSE

• They were easy to teach
• They were obedient
• They were respectful
• They were young
• And active

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