Industrial Revolution Child Labor

The advent of the industrial revolution affected the average worker in many negative ways, and yet many people either did not realize the horrendous treatment that the workers, mainly child laborers, endured, or chose to turn their nose to the vile treatment in the name of profit and luxury. Factory workers had to endure harsh treatment in their jobs, were forced to live in terrible housing, and many people turned their noses to it all for their own selfish needs.

Child laborers in factories had to face horrible working conditions. The long hours and poor treatment of child laborers left many of them without a basic education such as the ability to read and write, which would leave them severely handicapped as adults as they could not read information for themselves and had to trust someone to tell it to them, which made it easy for someone to give them false information if they pleased. The children also had to work under constant fear in the workplace, as if they did not …show more content…
Workers were sent to live in areas called slums. These slums had no running water or plumbing, so human waste was abundant upon the unpaved streets of the slums. The slums were mostly located near the factories where the laborers worked, so if the factories produced any type of pollution or toxic fumes the laborers had no place to go to escape it. The houses built in the slums were also built right next to one another in very packed spaces, so the workers had little to no privacy, and a single house fire would most certainly mean a destruction of most of the homes in the slums as there was nothing impeding the advancement of the fire. While the laborers of the Industrial Revolution had to work in ghastly conditions in the factories and could not escape that at home, the higher classes that benefited from the misery of the workers adamantly denied that they lived so horribly so that they could continue to live in