Children as young as six years old during the industrial revolution worked hard hours for little or no pay. Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day, with a one-hour total break. ("The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1900." DISCovering World History. 1997
Student Resource Center. Framington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. Online Database.
November 8, 2001)
The less fortunate coughed constantly through 10-hour shifts in dark, damp coal mines or sweated to the point of dehydration while tending fiery glass-factory furnaces.
In 1870, the first U.S. census to report child labor numbers counted 750,000 workers under the age of 15, not including children who worked for their families in businesses or on farms. By 1911, more than two million American children under the age of 16 were working – many of them 12 hours or more, six days a week. Often they toiled in unhealthful and hazardous conditions; always for minuscule wages. ( 2013 The Social Welfare History Project)
"Hymn for the Working Children" by Fanny J. Crosby.
Student Resource Center. Framington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. Online Database.
November 8, 2001)
The less fortunate coughed constantly through 10-hour shifts in dark, damp coal mines or sweated to the point of dehydration while tending fiery glass-factory furnaces.
In 1870, the first U.S. census to report child labor numbers counted 750,000 workers under the age of 15, not including children who worked for their families in businesses or on farms. By 1911, more than two million American children under the age of 16 were working – many of them 12 hours or more, six days a week. Often they toiled in unhealthful and hazardous conditions; always for minuscule wages. ( 2013 The Social Welfare History Project)
"Hymn for the Working Children" by Fanny J. Crosby.