Conclusion to Child Labour

Child Labour: Conclusion 

Children ether pushing to support their families
or pushing because owners of factories
forced them to.

 With child labour are filled with high poverty levels. The children has no but to go and work because if they don't they will most likely starve and die. Child labour for these children is survival because their is no other options for them. None of these children are able to go to a house or even be able to go to a school. Most of these children work from dawn all the way to night and even so they would work to help their own families.

Many of the parents were unwilling to put their children to work at the new textile factories. This is when factory owners saw their way to success through young factory employees. One way to their plan was to buy children from orphanages and workhouses. These children's were known as pauper apprentices. The children would sign a contract the would make them property to the factory owners. In my blog of industrial revolution of child labour i see that the true masterminds of child labour are the factory owners and the children's families. If the families never left or put their children to an orphanage or even just sold them off to the factory owners there wouldn't have been child labour in the 1800's and 1900's.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRworkhouse.children.htm

Why would Factory owners need child workers

Why do this to us we are still young :(

Children put to work younger than 15 years of age.

The reason factory owners used child workers. Besides the fact of the industrial revolution children were often involved in economic and industrial activities. Children were needed to their families because their families probably needed money to survive. "In the primarily agricultural societies that existed in most countries before the beginning of the industrial revolution children" was useful in such ways as working during and directly after harvest times and they could speed up their collection as well and the storage of crops.

Later it wasn't surprising that youth children would be used as workers in the industrial age. In Great Britain poverty was a widespread in the working or lower class. The poorest families such as grandparents, parents, and children would have to work from a young age right through to the oldest possible age. The children were way cheaper to employ, they were better than employing adults because they were able to work in confined spaced and on fast machines they would be dangerous or difficult for adults to use. 

   What I see in the eyes of the factory owners is that they found an easier way to greed and that is through children not adults that will know what these people are doing and i do disagree with their decisions in having to get the children to do their what adults should be doing. Children should never have to work hard labour.    

http://www.suite101.com/content/children-as-workers-during-the-industrial-revolu-a89230

The End of child labor

I put this picture up because it shows what i think is
true and that children under the age of 18 shouldn't be working
hard labour.

End Child Labour 18-1900's:


In the days of the industrial revolution, factory owners in the united states employed child workers. In Britain, child labour was a major issue in the 19th century and it ended up getting legislated and was brought to an end.


In 1892 the social reforms, John Peter Altgeld, was elected for governor of illinois. Later on he was able to persuade the state legislature to pass legislation on control of child labour. The law stands for limiting children and women to a maximum eight hour day. In order to enforce this legislation John would appoint one of the country's leading campaigners against child labour. Florence Kelley was the states first chief factory inspector. She was the one to inspect factories and find out if they had any child laborers and to see how they would treat their factory employees. She got a staff of twelve, five of which were women, one was her assistant named Alzina Stevens. The success of this was "short-lived" and in 1895 the Illinois Association of Manufacturers was able to get that law repealed. 

I see that in the picture the spider is rapping up the child
because its saying that the child labour is what i need
and im going to keep these children their not going no where

                                        










http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchild.htm

How can we learn from knowing about these people?

Child labor

vs

 21century children

Children at hard work, younger than us teens.

Us children in the 21st century has a life of choice and support. The children in the time of child labor didn't and were forced to work. If i had a choice to work or not i would be able to choose those kids in the industrial age had no rights. The young children in the industrial age worked a lot of shifts. Some even younger than us teens. Their work days would often be 10 to 14 hours with minimal breaks during the shifts and us children would stay home and only have to listen to our parents they needed to listen to their factory owners. These children would be in a higher chance of dying then we do. When they work the machinery often ran so quickly that little fingers, arms and even their legs could possibly get caught easily.
      Us teen age and young kids have no choice but to stay home or listen to our parents the children in the industrial age would have died for just staying in the factories, the factories would have fumes and toxins. If the children inhaled it they will most likely to get very sick, have chronic conditions or disease.
      

 http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/childhood.php

                                          

What groups of people today face the same challenge of Child labour

Child labour in Africa

A young african Child
working hard labour.

Child labour didn't only occur in the industrial revolution but it has been going on in our real life sentry like child slaves that work in west Africa. Many of the children gets exported to different regions such as in the Middle East and Europe. The cause for this is poverty. In west africa the adult workers would get paid only 1$ a day this means that they would do anything to get some more money even give away their own children for a few dollars. 

In africa the children are treated as small sized adults because many of the children will already have tasks to do in the homes. They will have to sweep or get water. You will also see children working in shops or on the streets, the poor families will send their children to a richer area such as a housemaid or house boy. The poor families who get into some debt will probably lend their child to the debtor as a bond or just to work their way out of the debt that their in. Sometimes debt is difficult so often the children will get sold.  And so with all this child labour and slavery this all proves that there is people today that face this challenge/problem of child labour just not in worst condition as in the Industrial Revolution. 

http://www.case.edu/orgs/cwrumun/cwrumun.org/downloads/Child%20Labor.pdf 

How can I learn from knowing about child labour.

Child Labor teaches 
you many things

Three factory workers in the 
Industrial age of Revolution

Child labor shows what families rely on to get something to munch on or just to get a little bit of more money. Most of the time the owners of the factories could maybe even get away with paying them nothing at all. The orphans were the children who would subject to this type of labor. Labor of at least working 19 hours a day with only a one hour brake. Do you know any children of the age of at least 8 or younger that works hard labor. Do you know any children that works and has a high chance of death. I didn't think so. You probably heard of kids working in different country not for money but for survival and to help their families. When this child labor in the industrial revolution started to get out of hand the Factory Act of 1833 had improved it. The factory act were a series of Acts that were passes by the Parliament of the UK to limit the number of hours that was worked by children and woman in this industrial age of labor. All of this could tell us how our lives as young kids really isn't as bad as it was in the industrial age. 

http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

What was daily life like for children who work?

                    Childrens Day at Work

This picture shows some of the children working in the
factory. You could also see the supervisors in the back. 

 Lots of the factory workers were children. The children had bad working conditions such as having to work long hours and were treated very bad by their supervisors or overseers. There will be times when children would start to work at the age of four (4) or five (5). A young kid really didnt benifit a lot from work but they would earn a few pence and that could still be enough to buy them selfs some food. 

One the work places that anyone can say was the most dangerous would be the Coal Mines. The coal mines would be very scary for these children to work in since many people got all sorts of injuries and sometimes explosions would happen while the workers would be there. The Saftey rules were limited. Some of the things that the children would have to do that machines now do is to cut and move coal, this job would be done by women, children, and men. The younger children were none as "Trappers" because they worked trap doors. They would have to sit in a hole that was hollowed and needed to hold a string that was fastened to a door. When they here the coal wagons coming the children would have to open the door by pulling the string. 

in different terms of condistions this job was the easiest in the mines. The older children that worked were called "Coal Bearers" they would carry alot of coal on their backs inside of a big basket.

 http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html