Stockport, England

Stockport England was a town with many textile mills. The textile mills in Stockport employed 1,600 children at a time. In the textile mills, children worked long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay until parliament passed laws limiting the length of time chilren could work and the minimum age of children they could employ.

Manchester England

Manchester England was an area of England with a large amount of textile mills during the Industrial Revolution. Manchester was infamous for the poor working and living conditions for factory workers. Many of those workers were children. There 4000 children worked in the mills of Manchester at one time, and were subjected to long hours, dangerous work, and low pay until labor reform bills were passed.

Labor Reform in Victorian England

The Industrial Revolution was a time of booming economic development that spurred demand for the production of goods. The use of machines in the manufacturing and transportation of those products created an additional demand for coal. The heavy demand for all of these products led employers to employ children to work in dangerous situations for a fraction of the wages given to adults.

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