Child Labor In The 19th Century

The Industrial Revolution took a huge impact on the 19th century, by giving the people opportunities to work in factories. But these type of situations not only gave men or women work, but children as well. By 1890, factory workers would only get very little minimum wages. At the end of the day, employer’s preferred child labor for many different reasons. Three good examples are children are a cheap source of labor, they would have more energy and a longer life span, so they would say. But most importantly children won’t rebel against their employer’s or especially join any type of unions. Ever since child labor began on the 19th century, a high percentage of the community, family members didn’t agree to this movement. Sadly these people had no choice but to follow child labor. If there was one thing that employers really disliked it were unions. Because of these unions and their wish of high amount of pay rate, factories started booming down. This is the main reason why factories craved child labor, because their only children, they listen to commands. Children worked 10 to 14 hours a day with their backs hunched over machinery. It’s amazing how 2 million under the age of 16 were employed, this shows how strongly child labor …show more content…
Child labor slowly but surely began to fade away and make a positive reaction on the people. The community craved change, so strikes started to beak free to abolish child labor. Children wouldn’t have to put their life in danger just to make a couple of pocket change. Instead of making very young children work a new law got enforced, only 16 and older kids were allowed to work. In my opinion that was a dramatic change on the year 1938 to be exact. Therefore, child labor became a very important topic for The Industrial Revolution People all around the world learn how history was made. For every century something negative has to occur in order for something positive to take