Describe the Treatment of Children Who Worked in the Factories.
250 million children between 5 and 14 are forced to work in sweatshops in developing countries. Up to 24 cash back Children worked for the delight of the cotton mill owners there was a cheap alternative to paying children with actual money. Child Labor Laws Definition Industrial Revolution History Those complaining are beaten and abused. . Less than half that many children had been employed 30 years before. In the mill as in most other factory industrial settings at the time work appropriate for children was clearly differentiated from work seen as appropriate for adults. The dirtiest jobs were given to the children. According to History Crunch a child working during the Industrial Revolution typically made between 10 to 20 of an adults wage despite performing the same work. In 1850 a woman garment worker in a Cleveland factory earned 104 dollars. By 1900 roughly 17 million children under the age of 16 worked in factories....