Children have been working days as long as their parents and for what. They get meager payments and stay in very dangerous situations. The working class was taken advantage of by factory owners when they knew families would not be able to support themselves and children were not employed. Children can start working at the unbelievable age of 4! Poor children had it worse because they were forced to work in Blacking Factory!
This was a major problem because children were not getting the education they vitally need. At this point, twenty percent of the children of London wore getting any schooling and this would be either day school or a Sunday school, but the majority of children were just working. Many children were unfortunate and were considered lucky to be a servant or an apprentice. There was a huge rise in prostitution (thousands) in London and most were very young and in the age group of 15 to 22.
Aside from all the hardships, there was a separation of union within the families due to them always working. Parliamentary acts tried to shorten these hours for children from 16 to 12 and this happened in 1802 and 1819. Short Time Committees organized by Evangelicals produced acts that children 11-18 can work a maximum of 12 hours and children from the ages that vary between 9 and 11 can work 8 hours at most. This act only applied to textile factories, but later by 1847, another act was passed that applied to the majority of all labor jobs where both adults and children were to work a maximum of 10 hours a day.
This was a major problem because children were not getting the education they vitally need. At this point, twenty percent of the children of London wore getting any schooling and this would be either day school or a Sunday school, but the majority of children were just working. Many children were unfortunate and were considered lucky to be a servant or an apprentice. There was a huge rise in prostitution (thousands) in London and most were very young and in the age group of 15 to 22.
Aside from all the hardships, there was a separation of union within the families due to them always working. Parliamentary acts tried to shorten these hours for children from 16 to 12 and this happened in 1802 and 1819. Short Time Committees organized by Evangelicals produced acts that children 11-18 can work a maximum of 12 hours and children from the ages that vary between 9 and 11 can work 8 hours at most. This act only applied to textile factories, but later by 1847, another act was passed that applied to the majority of all labor jobs where both adults and children were to work a maximum of 10 hours a day.