Owners of factory's wanted to hire children for lot's of reasons. First of all, children were allowed to be payed less than compared with adult's did for doing the same work. It is estimated children were paid between 10-20% of what an adult made. Seeing these statistic's it is easy to see the owners saved money and maintained wealth by hiring children. Children were more likely to listen to the person in charge, and do whatever was asked in fear of punishment. Factory workers who were higher up on the food chain ( as managers)were known to whip or beat employees that were late for work or if something that didn't please them came out in either their work or attitude. Children starting at the age four years old worked many tiring hours in factories under horrible conditions. Child labor continued throughout the Industrial Revolution until laws were eventually passed that made child labor illegal.
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