This primary source gave us a first-hand account of the horrors children faced while working in factories. A six year old child in this time period of the 1800’s-1900 is not in school but instead scrubbing the floors as an intensive choir. Child Labor laws at this time didn’t exist, so children we’re seen as mini workers in the household and worked in various types of fields. These children worked about 10 hours a day and grew their resume before they even earned their license. The article states that “ one who pastes the lining on the buttonholes does 500,000 a day” compared to today’s time that is an imaginable number for just 1 human to do considering we now live in an innovative digital age. The children, Campbell writes about lived in
