Child Labor In History
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Child labor first appeared with the establishment of the domestic
system. The domestic system was a process through which entrepreneurs
would purchace raw materials that would be "put out" to the homes of many
families and be made into finished products that could be sold by the
entrepreneurs. The ....
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.... long hours in the dark and damp mines, often carrying coal in
packs on their backs up long ladders to the surface.
During the 1830's the English Parliament decided to create an
investigation into the mistreatment of child laborors. One child in a
textile mill testified that he began working when he was eight years of
age and since that time had been working from six o'clock in the morning
to eight o'clock in the evening, with one hour to break at twelve o'clock
in the afternoon. Sometimes, w ....
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