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Why Was Child Labor Necessary During Industrial Revolution?

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Was Child Labor Necessary during Industrial Revolution? Industrial Revolution began in England in the mid 1700s. The changes in Industrial Revolution were not only to improve the manufacturing of products, but also helped those countries to have a better economy and life. At that time, there were many jobs opportunities, many people, including children, most of them worked in factories. A lot of factories owner tented to use child labor, but they treated children badly. So I think child labor wasn’t necessary, and there are many ways to solve this problem. Factories’ owner didn’t treat children very well. They always beat them when they did something wrong or be late at work. They didn’t show any respect to those children. According to Michael Thomas Sadler’ report, he asked about beating children was absolutely necessary, and does all other factories did the same thing to children. The answer of this question was yes, Mr. Matthew Crabtree, the interviewee, had witness by himself and had experienced personally. Factories’ manger did not show any humanity to all of his crew and they even don’t care about child labor. They only cared about their money and how wealthy …show more content…

First, the pollution was terrible; the air was filled with dust. Everyday, children who worked in the factories breathe in amounts of dust, and those dust were hard to get out from their body. This made them weak and sick. Second, the machines were very dangerous to those child labors. According to Leonard Horner, he described what happened to a girl in a textile factory “ She was caught y her apron which wrapped around the shaft. She was whirled round and repeatedly forced between the shaft and the carding engine. Her right leg was found some distance away.” This tells us that it was not safe to let children work in the factories. Last, they need to wake up very early and work for 14~16 hours, and have a little short break to

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