Textile factories are bad for the health of children and other working class families. The reasoning behind this is the fact that you “could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath”, Document A. Also the regular working time “was from five in the morning till nine or ten at night”, Document C. The Main reason behind the fact that you could not breathe was that the machinery was always working, nonstop. The smoke from the machines caused the workers, usually children, to not be able to breathe. Also the children were usually abused to do the hard labor, sometimes to the point were the abusers think they killed one of the workers. This is an example of one case of that. “Frank once beat me till he frightened himself.
