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Did you know?

Child labour forms an intrinsic part of pre-industrial economies.In pre-industrial societies, there is rarely a concept of childhood in the modern sense. Children often begin to actively participate in activities such as child rearing, hunting and farming as soon as they are competent. In many societies, children as young as 13 are seen as adults and engage in the same activities as adults.

The work of children was important in pre-industrial societies, as children needed to provide their labour for their survival and that of their group. Pre-industrial societies were characterised by low productivity and short life expectancy; preventing children from participating in productive work would be more harmful to their welfare and that of their group in the long run. In pre-industrial societies, there was little need for children to attend school. This is especially the case in non-literate societies. Most pre-industrial skill and knowledge were amenable to being passed down through direct mentoring or apprenticing by competent adults.

Industrial Revolution

Children going to a 12-hour night shift in the United States (1908)

The early 20th century witnessed many home-based enterprises involving child labour. An example is shown above from New York in 1912.

With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the late 18th century, there was a rapid increase in the industrial exploitation of labour, including child labour. Industrial cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool rapidly grew from small villages into large cities and improving child mortality rates. These cities drew in the population that was rapidly growing due to increased agricultural output. This process was replicated in other industrialising countries.

The Victorian era in particular became notorious for the conditions under which children were employed. Children as young as four were employed in production factories and mines working long hours in dangerous, often fatal, working conditions. In coal mines, children would crawl through tunnels too narrow and low for adults. Children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or selling matches, flowers and other cheap goods. Some children undertook work as apprentices to respectable trades, such as building or as domestic servants (there were over 120,000 domestic servants in London in the mid-18th century). Working hours were long: builders worked 64 hours a week in the summer and 52 hours in winter, while servants worked 80-hour weeks.

Child labour played an important role in the Industrial Revolution from its outset, often brought about by economic hardship. The children of the poor were expected to contribute to their family income. In 19th-century Great Britain, one-third of poor families were without a breadwinner, as a result of death or abandonment, obliging many children to work from a young age. In England and Scotland in 1788, two-thirds of the workers in 143 water-powered cotton mills were described as children. A high number of children also worked as prostitutes. The author Charles Dickens worked at the age of 12 in a blacking factory, with his family in debtor's prison.

Child wages were often low, the wages were as little as 10–20% of an adult male's wage. Karl Marx was an outspoken opponent of child labour, saying British industries "could but live by sucking blood, and children’s blood too", and that U.S. capital was financed by the "capitalized blood of children". Letitia Elizabeth Landon castigated child labour in her 1835 poem The Factory, portions of which she pointedly included in her 18th Birthday Tribute to Princess Victoria in 1837.

Throughout the second half of the 19th century, child labour began to decline in industrialised societies due to regulation and economic factors because of the Growth of trade unions. The regulation of child labour began from the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. The first act to regulate child labour in Britain was passed in 1803. As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. These acts were largely ineffective and after radical agitation, by for example the "Short Time Committees" in 1831, a Royal Commission recommended in 1833 that children aged 11–18 should work a maximum of 12 hours per day, children aged 9–11 a maximum of eight hours, and children under the age of nine were no longer permitted to work. This act however only applied to the textile industry, and further agitation led to another act in 1847 limiting both adults and children to 10-hour working days. Lord Shaftesbury was an outspoken advocate of regulating child labour.

As technology improved and proliferated, there was a greater need for educated employees. This saw an increase in schooling, with the eventual introduction of compulsory schooling. Improved technology, automation and further legislation significantly reduced child labour particularly in western Europe and the U.S.

Early 20th century

Percentage children working in England and Wales Census year% boys aged 10–14 as child labour188122.9189126.0190121.9191118.3Note: These are averages; child labour in Lancashire was 80%Source: Census of England and Wales

In the early 20th century, thousands of boys were employed in glass making industries. Glass making was a dangerous and tough job especially without the current technologies. The process of making glass includes intense heat to melt glass (3,133 °F (1,723 °C)). When the boys are at work, they are exposed to this heat. This could cause eye trouble, lung ailments, heat exhaustion, cuts, and burns. Since workers were paid by the piece, they had to work productively for hours without a break. Since furnaces had to be constantly burning, there were night shifts from 5:00 pm to 3:00 am. Many factory owners preferred boys under 16 years of age.

An estimated 1.7 million children under the age of fifteen were employed in American industry by 1900.

In 1910, over 2 million children in the same age group were employed in the United States. This included children who rolled cigarettes, engaged in factory work, worked as bobbin doffers in textile mills, worked in coal mines and were employed in canneries. Lewis Hine's photographs of child labourers in the 1910s powerfully evoked the plight of working children in the American south. Hine took these photographs between 1908 and 1917 as the staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.

Household enterprises

Factories and mines were not the only places where child labour was prevalent in the early 20th century. Home-based manufacturing across the United States and Europe employed children as well. Governments and reformers argued that labour in factories must be regulated and the state had an obligation to provide welfare for poor. Legislation that followed had the effect of moving work out of factories into urban homes. Families and women, in particular, preferred it because it allowed them to generate income while taking care of household duties.

Home-based manufacturing operations were active year-round. Families willingly deployed their children in these income generating home enterprises. In many cases, men worked from home. In France, over 58% of garment workers operated out of their homes; in Germany, the number of full-time home operations nearly doubled between 1882 and 1907; and in the United States, millions of families operated out of home seven days a week, year round to produce garments, shoes, artificial flowers, feathers, match boxes, toys, umbrellas and other products. Children aged 5–14 worked alongside the parents. Home-based operations and child labour in Australia, Britain, Austria and other parts of the world was common. Rural areas similarly saw families deploying their children in agriculture. In 1946, Frieda S. Miller – then Director of the United States Department of Labor – told the International Labour Organization that these home-based operations offered "low wages, long hours, child labour, unhealthy and insanitary working conditions".

THEY SENT SYLVIE A ENTIRE DOCUMENT ABOUT CHILD LABOR

[askkfsylvie]

what-

what back???----

[askkfsylvie]

where is molly

uhhhhh i dont- know? I mean. she's probably at home if anything. she visited me at the hospital once after the muesum- but I didn't really get fully in contact because I was still IN THE HOSPITAL. so, she's probably at home/the toy store. I wonder if she misses me-

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

How does it feel knowing your friends could leave you any second?They could stab you in the back at any moment or die a painful death while you have to suffer with the consequences of still living after they died. Would you even want to live with the guilt of knowing if you might have done something different your friend would still be alive?

Also what do you think of this cat :D

(this is for funnies)

...

he has. a very interesting smile.

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

I believe in him. he can do it if be tries his best! he could try simple, easy, recipes first!

-Dr Ashling

What?? Of course he is not, that is a cat.

-Prof. Kazumi Mishima

[askkfsylvie]

I think gloved paws, a proper hair net. and perhaps a jacket might make him able to cook.

-Dr Ashling

What?? Of course he is not, that is a cat.

-Prof. Kazumi Mishima

[askkfsylvie]

I also agree on the subject, why is the small animal in a burger container? I dunno! but he looks happy!

-Dr Ashling

What a cute little lad!

The burger cat!

Buat?

[askkfsylvie]

huh. alright. I will take this image into consideration.

[askkfsylvie]

What if I told you,

Someone,

At least 1 person in the facility

Is from Canada *exits spookily*

no

[askkfsylvie]

sheep. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

yes! my flock are the best!

they are very competitive when it comes to chess though...

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

Lmao get trolled

LEAVE.

[askkfsylvie]

I am terribly sorry for my "non fluent" and "childish" question, I will be more clear

I have noticed from an outside source, that you did not respond towards Madeline's question on how you are her friend,

During the time you had after supposedly waking up, you could of still have answered such question. But, as I have seen, you decided not to despite everything.

With this in mind, I am putting a statement out there, that you should not string Madeline along like that, as it may hurt her well being.

Yours Truely

- Anon

as said previously,,,,,

leave.

[askkfsylvie]

Would you rather,

Lose Madeline,

Or,

Lose Mishima?

(yeaaaah! alter here! this one has a warning! GOD THIS KID HAS MENTAL PROBLEMS! so uh. suicide warning and- meta???? :) )

neither. absolutely neither. if I ever come to the conclusion that one of them is going to die, I am taking myself with them. and that is all you are going to get from me. violence is never the answer. but sometimes you can't win. if I cant win I won't lose.

I dont know who you are,, or what you want from me. I dont care how you know me, or how, why, when, or what. you dont get to hold power over me. I dont care how much you know about me. I will know who you are, and we will be the same. I will find all I need to know about who you are. you dont hold power over me.

I have no idea how you are involved in the game. but I've fought worse monsters. I've fought things stronger then you, I've fought myself.

I am more then who ever you will be, anonymous. and I will promise that, from the bottom of my heart.

if you message me again. you will get the same thing, I will just tell you off. you won't get your fun and cute answers from me. never again.

-Sylvester.

[askkfsylvie]

Do you like Chicken Alfredo?

Asking for,

Uh,

Someone else who consistently named Madeline McButt on pure chance

I have,,, no real thoughts. don't love, but don't dislike,,, why?

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

You didn't sleep that night, did you.

Admit it, Sylvester. Madeline's not your friend

admit it. you are attacking me! I REFUSE! to respond to your childish taunts. my business isn't yours. if you gave me fluid and barely understandable questions. I could give you genuine responses to your quizzes. I could give the collective knowledge of our group, but no. you come to me to attempt to torture me with your unnecessary words. get a life anon, because you seem to be based in grade school.

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

what is your favorite food?

chicken nuggets? I guess?? why do you care so much?

-Dr Ashling

[askkfsylvie]

I'm sure I could find some reasons. I'll write them down and bring them to you later. just- please think about it

I want my sheep back. I really do- i miss them. I miss them alot.