Child labor has a long history and a long timeline in every countries history. By looking at the proclaimed British empire and how they dealt with the horrors and injustice of child labor through the years will be a great way of viewing how England sees its lowest people. Child labor is controversial now and viewed differently by those that lived at the time as deplorable or a fact of their lives and the choices of the child's parents. We will be looking at labor laws in the 1850s through 1870s.