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And lastly, the elite class. Only 10% of the population at this time, the elite class included aristocrats, land owners, and, of course, royalty. Just being a land owner would give you about 10,000-30,000 pounds (12,351-37,053 american dollars) a year. Compare this to the working class salary (25 pounds [30.88 ameican dollars]), and you can understand a lot about this class.

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The working class made up about 75% of the population. Working class consisted of unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers in mining, fishing, transporting, building, clothing departments and more. Most people in this class barely made enough money to survive on their own, so the children were forced into labor. The men were paid most during their 20's, at their top physical strength. As they got older, they were less useful, so less pay. The women of the family would work 10-14 hours a day until children came into the family. With children, they turned to housework.

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The middle class made up 15% of the population during the Victorian period. The middle class included military officers, experts in law and medicine, lower levels of government, and university professors.

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This was not only for children. Adults suffered the same sacrifices that the children did. By the way, both the children and the adults earned extremely low pay.

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Child labor was forced, due to the fact that lower class families barely made enough money to live. The workplaces they worked in (duh) were very dangerous. Not only were there explosions androofs caving in, but few safety rules were set. Plus, pollution increased majorly during this period, and it kept growing with each factory created.

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The Victorian period lasted from 1837-1901. Queen Victoria, the queen of England at the time, is the second longest ruling queen in English history (the longest is still currently ruling, Queen Elizabeth II)