Industrial revolution - shannon (the best novels to read TXT) 📗

As the number of factories grew people from the countryside began to move into the towns looking for better paid work.

the wages of a farm worker were very low and there were less jobs working on farms. Many factory workers were children. They worked long hours and were often treated badly by the manager or overseers.

Sometimes the children started work as young as four or five years old. A young child could not earn much, but even a few pence would be enough to buy food.

The coal mines where very dark. When the children were down there they would not see much light at all.

Some of the children who work as water carries would have a very bad back ‘s from when they were carrying the water. Workers got all sorts of injuries. There were very few safety rules and when they got injured they would still have to work.

the younger children would work as the door keeper. It is when they open and close doors for the workers. Some would be horse drivers but most of the children who would work would be the ones that had a big family with about 12-13 members.
they used the boys for sweeping chimneys was forbidden by law, boys continued to be forced through the narrow winding passages of chimneys in large houses. When they first started at between five and ten years old, children suffered many cuts,

Publication Date: 08-23-2010

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