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Factory owners hire children from poor and working-class families to work in factories that make cotton, flax, wool and silk.

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Children were smaller and nimble, so they could perform functions that were more difficult for adults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejc8oDOcN_o

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Young girls often worked in factories making matches. They lost their teeth due to the harsh chemicals.

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Brittain created one of the first child labor laws in 1833. They made it illeagal for children under the age of nine to work in factories.

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Children did jobs including working on machines in factories, selling newspapers on street corners, breaking up coal at the coal mines, and sweeping chimneys.

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It is very dangerous for kids to be working all day with large and heavy equipment, with a possibility of it falling or breaking on the kids.

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The children would be beaten, verbally abused, and their masters took no notice to their saftey.

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Children as young as 6 years old can  work up to 19 hours a day.

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14% of workers that are making products are younger than 14 years old.

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The children who get paid, get paid very little. Possibly a few cents a day.