Children as young as 6-7 worked very long hard hours in the |Industrial Revolution. The hours were often around 10-14 hours a day! Working around such big machinery for such long hours often resulted in very serious injuries, lung diseases and sometimes death! They were only paid about 10-20 percent of what an adult would get for exactly the same job but the factory owners would claim that they were saving the children as they were giving them clothes, food and shelter although these privileges were very minimal as they were treated like slaves. Children were much preferred to adults as they were small and could fit in-between small machinery parts and work a lot quicker. Some children had to work in mines with terrible ventilation which caused serious lung diseases. Other jobs that the children did included:
> selling newspapers
> breaking up coal
> chimney sweeps
> and just working as whatever jobs needed doing!
The Birth of Venus
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