The Effects Of Emotional Appeal On The Population 's Perspective Of Child Labour Committee ( 1830-1905 )

The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in history that took place between 1760 and the mid 1800’s. During this time frame, a variety of different machines were invented and put in factories to make workers and everyday people’s lives easier. These machines had to be run by people such as women and even children because the men were mostly in coal mines. Some of the many negative consequences about these new jobs and new machines being invented were; child labor, physical abuse on the job, and unsafe working conditions. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because more jobs became available, it was actually a negative thing.

Different discourses of childhood have different ideas of childhood which has different implications on the way in which children are treated. Within the social constructionist theory there are 3 main discourses - romantic, puritan and tabula rasa. This essay will look

“Children worked in very dangerous conditions in the picture represent in document 8” (Document 8). The children working in the factories have to be careful not to get their limbs or foreign objects lodged into the machines. If they got injured or ill and had to miss work in order to properly recuperate. “You are considerably deformed in person as a consequence of this labor? Yes I am” (Document 7), a woman that worked in a flax mill as a young girl was left deformed from all the harsh labor that was forced upon her while growing up. Not only did the parents have to work in order to be able to provide for their family, but their children had to work in order to contribute to be able to put food on the table for the whole family due to the parents lack of pay. “Children were uneducated and were unable to attend school as seen in document 6” (Document 6). Because of the lack of education many adults were illiterate, which caused many problems for example, learning basic life skills would be more difficult and time consuming because people are unable to self-educate by reading informational books on how to acquire basic skills “I am at work in a spinning room tending four sides of warp which is one girl’s work” (Document 1) Children were over worked the girl that spoke in the text about was forced to do the work of four separation girls all in one. Furthermore is unhealthy for anyone at any age

Before the industrial revolution it was a happier time for everyone. The farm life was filled games and singing. Then the industrial revolution starts and this all changes. No longer are kids playing and singing, they are put to work with there parents. There is also wars going on where the young boys are sent off to fight and die for their country. The children where forced to grow up to quickly and there innocence was taken away. Innocence was idealized because it was something that kids had for a short time before it was taken away. Adults would have given anything to be small children again so they would not have to work in the horrible conditions that came with the industrial revolution. Authors began to right books of an idealized childhood that was happy and fun. It was totally different from what was actually

The practice of Child Labor in America in the early 1900s had a devastating impact on generations of children. This mainly impacted children of poor and disadvantaged families; these families tended to suffer from generations of debt or were new immigrants to America. These children worked long hours which they did not get paid nearly enough for. They worked hard, dangerous jobs daily. In the 1900s, children chose to support their families in times of need rather than furthering their education, for which they did not get paid nearly enough. These jobs affected their health poorly and had a negative impact on their childhood and development. Children of poor families in cities suffered the most during the Industrial Revolution, because they had to work long hours, did hard jobs, and often sacrificed their health and education to support their struggling families.

In the documentary “The Children Who Built Victorian Britain” by BBC, talks about the children of the industrial revolution, it shows the jobs they had, where these children came from, their motivation and the progression of laws against child labor. Before the industrial revolution people used to manufactures their goods in their homes using simple machines, but in the late 1700’s this shifted drastically in Britain. They started to implement new ideas of modernization using industries to manufacture goods at a larger scale. The steam engine, iron and textile industries were one of the many industries that played a key role to improve economy, transportation and living conditions in the late 1700’s. Without the industrial revolution we wouldn’t have the technology that we have nowadays, but the industrial revolution also brought a dark chapter for history, the exploitation of children.

In document E there is images of children working in factories both girls and boys. Children were expected to work under the same conditions as adults. Children had to deal with machines and factories. Child labor population started to grow because the need of help of children in factories made all families involve children into working. Children had to sacrifice their own lives into something they didn't belong to but they still did it to help out their families. This was one of the family worst decision to send children into working because children were working under the same condition as an adult and they did not have any protection. In document F it also shows an image of how unions started to do organizations for workers and children rights. There was 3 unions formed, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and Industrial Workers if the World. The organizations were meant to help out the workers, women, and children. These organizations started using both boycotts and strikes as strategies to achieve their goal . Their main goals were to give workers eight hours of workday, increase wages, improve working conditions, and put an end to child labor. This topic relates to my next topic because workers and their families were mainly struggling for their low

Through research the primary interpretation of the industrialisation has been positive, with some light now being put upon some of the negative aspects of the industrial revolution, through sources which were obtained in those times. The “British Child Labour Inquiry” (as cited in Stearns, Gosch, Grieshaber and Belzer, 2012, pp. 121-122) acts as one of these primary sources. It was an inquiry conducted on Abraham Whitehead on the conditions for British children who were forced to work in wool mills. This interview with Whitehead, a clothier

One reason why the Industrial Revolution had a negative impact on the world is because it started child labor. Child labor is when businesses and industries take kids from any age and make them work in dangerous and inhumane places. In the document from a British industrial worker, the Sadler Committee in 1832 investigated the workers’ conditions in British factories. It says, “ ‘... When did you first begin to work in the mills? When I was ten years of age … we began at five in the morning and stopped at nine at night … at times we were frequently strapped [whipped].’ ”. This statement from the document shows a negative impact in the Industrial Revolution because kids at young age are sent to work for long hours and are frequently whipped.

"Last Thursday one girl fell down and broke her neck which caused instant death. She was going in or coming out of the mill and slipped down it being very icy" (Paul). This quote emphasizes the daily struggles that young children faced during the industrial revolution as far as looking out for their own well being. Children initially were involved in the work industry as a result of machines taking over thousands of men's jobs. Pictures of the factories sent very negative emotions to all who saw them, despite the positive sounding letters that were sent home. The work industry, for children, was extremely dangerous, and as stated in the source, children often died will on the job because of poor working conditions. Although the letters that children sent home to their families may have sounded positive overall, the images of children at work are anything but pleasurable to witness. As a result of analyzing these sources, that working as a child could be lethal, however, the letter contradicts the pictures by claiming the work environment is pleasurable.

Firstly, the working conditions that the boys of the orphanage were subject to are not acceptable. Working in crowded areas with dangerous tools as young men put their lives at danger each time they worked every day. Furthermore, as orphans they were not being paid to work in these factories nor did they sign up to work for the bourgeoisie. While they were being provided with living arrangements and food, they were being deprived of the money and opportunities to go out into the world and make money from themselves. This type of enslavement is very similar to the injustices that Karl Marx refers to in his Communist Manifesto. Referring to the lives of the proletariat he explains that, “Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers…Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker,” (Dover-Thrift 131). Marx’s language and rhetoric very much describes the lives of orphans in this picture. They are meticulously organized by their supervisors and watched, but they have no outlet for a better life. One of the biggest ways that the proletariat was able to keep down their workers by not providing them education. Instead of going to school and learning how to become doctors or lawyers or factory owners themselves, these kids and even non orphans were stuck working so they can support their families or have a place to live. In fact, in cities like Berlin, workers were paid so little that they had to send their kids to work as well. It is this problem that Ernste Dronke refers to in his socialist novel “Berlin” when he explains that, “The barbaric modern custom of building small and tight chimneys into which only children can fit has created a huge increase in poor children for this industry. Moreover, they do not get an education, and

Women and children were able to join the work force, but for little pay and long hours. Many were face with poor work conditions, hazardous health issues and short lunch breaks. The economic success was often left unchecked by authorities, who were not ready to deal with the consequences of these uncharted waters.

Mortality rates were decreasing rapidly. This was not only an effect of the poor living conditions, but also of the high pollution that was being created by the factories. Conditions for adult and children in the factory during the Industrial Revolution were unrelenting in its enforcement of tough rules, long hours and its unsanitary and, sometimes, dangerous environment. According to author, the mill work that Sam and the other children did was dangerous nor particularly difficult. Children of the Industrial Revolution perhaps suffered more than the adults also “some of the children had their hands terribly lacerated by the carding machine”. Owners realized that children were easier to train and control and they were forced to work as young as eight years old. They worked for many hours in factories and were denied their education. At such a young age, education and the support of family would have been instrumental in the development of such an impressionable mind. The innocence of what it means to be a child was exploited by the business owners who wished only to gain more

The beginning of the Industrial Revolution paved way for millions to access to competitive industries and allowed many men and women, and now including children an opportunity to survive within the society. During this revolution, many children turned to cheap, long, and often dangerous employment to help support their own working class families and maintain their own needs. Chronic Unemployment, a short satirical text based on the issue of child labor in the Industrial Revolution, used denotative diction to show drawbacks of employment, hypothetical examples to show the drawbacks of working at an early age, and draws to the appeal of credibility to encapture the audience through using other members who can able to formulate a respected opinion in the text. Using these methods of expressing their purpose, to show the drawbacks

In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century of England, the Industrial Revolution occurred. It is marked as an important movement in history because it introduced steam-driven machinery, large factories, and a new working class. With new manufacturing, job opportunities opened up. As the demand for employees rose, that is when the working class also began to rise. However, it not only included adults but children as well. The main reason for children to work is because it benefits the employers and their families economically. Employers made profit by having children work for low wages, and the money the children made would go towards the family income and necessities to survive. The low adult wages would not suffice for a neutral family or extended, so children had no choice but to work and help support their family. Although in need of money, there were too many dangers involved when the children were working. As a result of this, the state legislation had Acts passed for the children’s safety. The Industrial Revolution had many upsides in modernizing England, but it also uncovered that children should not be seen as workers needing money, but as young human beings that need education and protection, and the only way to initiate this is with the involvement of the state.