Introduction
Even though children had worked and been servants and apprentices throughout history, child labor became much more popular and dangerous during the industrial revolution.
Children exhausted themselves working long hours in dangerous facilities for very little money. They were very useful since they were small and would fit in cramped places in mines and factories where regular workers (adults) couldn’t fit. Supposedly, children where easier to manage and control but most importantly, they were paid less.
Since they were at a time where producing a lot in very little time with the minimal expense was their main goal, children became quite useful workers.
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When the industrial revolution hit the world it was a revolutionary thing. …show more content…
Poor children were taking care of their entire families and needed jobs to support them, and businessmen had jobs that required small bodies to endure poor working environments. So when children took the jobs they worked several hours a day in horrid conditions and endured what would now be described as torture to feed their families. Children became dependent on drugs such as opium and alcohol just to continue a day’s work causing damage to their bodies later on in the future.
In the nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers looked to restrict child labor and improve working conditions. It took years for their points to be acknowledged and for the public to change their opinions. Today, wealthy countries have declared child labor a violation of human rights while other countries still allow and tolerate it.
Child labor is still at large in many parts of the world. There around 150-304 million children working in child labor. Even though most of the child labor occurring now-a-days is when a parent employs a child to work, there are still a large percentage of children working in illegal establishments away from their parents, working for an incredible low amount of money for large mass producing
Even though children had worked and been servants and apprentices throughout history, child labor became much more popular and dangerous during the industrial revolution.
Children exhausted themselves working long hours in dangerous facilities for very little money. They were very useful since they were small and would fit in cramped places in mines and factories where regular workers (adults) couldn’t fit. Supposedly, children where easier to manage and control but most importantly, they were paid less.
Since they were at a time where producing a lot in very little time with the minimal expense was their main goal, children became quite useful workers.
Body
When the industrial revolution hit the world it was a revolutionary thing. …show more content…
Poor children were taking care of their entire families and needed jobs to support them, and businessmen had jobs that required small bodies to endure poor working environments. So when children took the jobs they worked several hours a day in horrid conditions and endured what would now be described as torture to feed their families. Children became dependent on drugs such as opium and alcohol just to continue a day’s work causing damage to their bodies later on in the future.
In the nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers looked to restrict child labor and improve working conditions. It took years for their points to be acknowledged and for the public to change their opinions. Today, wealthy countries have declared child labor a violation of human rights while other countries still allow and tolerate it.
Child labor is still at large in many parts of the world. There around 150-304 million children working in child labor. Even though most of the child labor occurring now-a-days is when a parent employs a child to work, there are still a large percentage of children working in illegal establishments away from their parents, working for an incredible low amount of money for large mass producing