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