Persuasive Essay On Opposing The Ten Hour Bill

Having heard the testimony about the working conditions of children, I have already voted to change the law to restrict the number of houses which children can work up to 8 hours a day. Being said this as a member of parliament in England, I will also vote a “yes” on proposing the “Ten Hour Bill”, which will allow adults to only work up to ten hours a day instead of thirteen. This bill will allow them to work for only ten hours since they work under poisonous conditions, they will allow them to have the same labor rights as children, and will prevent further body deformation from the amount of work they are putting their body in a day. Can you see yourself working for thirteen hours a day and only having a fifteen-minute break? I know I wouldn’t be able too. This was how a regular shift would look like if you worked in a factory. “But what say you, my Lords, to a continuity of toil, in a standing posture, in a poisonous atmosphere, during 13 hours, with 15 minutes of rest? …show more content…
That is why the law changed to restrict them to only work for eight hours. However, adults should have the same equal rights because they are human beings too working under poor conditions. “But the overworking does not apply to children only; the adults are also overworked. The increased speed given to machinery within the last thirty years, has, in very many instances, doubled the labor of both” (Social Justice/ Cotton Manufacturer on Hours of Labor). Children are not the only ones being exploit, adults are working under the same or even worse conditions then the children. So why should only the children get less hours of labor? The adults are being overworked, and the increased in machinery has double the worked on them. Yet, this doesn’t justify why they have to work for so long, if children have labor rights adults should have them as