Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves

The working power of the Industrial revolutions were children. Indeed factory owners created workhouse to get lots of poor children working for them. They were not paid, but only fed with very little food. Children were malleable and fast learning.

The thesis of the article is to underline how the Industrial Revolution was not only a new economical model and an industrial progress, but indeed behind it there are many social changes. Indeed it was caused by child labour, which garanteed a very low price working class. As a result family life was revolutionased: single-parent households increased. It is not only fault of the Industrial Revolution, indeed working-class children was a long-established practice.

Paragraph 1: Introduction to the article

“ 2: Introduction to the informations

“ 3: Reason why children were employed

“ 4: How children were employed

“ 5: Presentation of data

“ 6: Child labour in the past

“ 7: Positive aspects of the Industrial Revolution

“ 8: How families changed

“ 9: Conclusion

The data that are considered basic to the thesis are: during most of the 18th century only around 35 per cent of ten year old working-class boys were in the labour force while the figure for 1791-1820 was 55 per cent, rising to 60 per cent for the period of 1821-1850. The number of eight-year-old working-class boys at work also rose substantially in that period – with around a third of them being part of the work force between 1791 and 1850 compared to less than 20 per cent before 1791.

In my opinion, Industrialisation had some dramatic effects on the social situation. Indeed poor people became poorer and poorer, and a part of population was used by some capitalists. On the other hand without Industrialisation and its negative effects, now we would be stuck in medieval regulations and human rights would not be asked. It goes without saying that in our days many children are still suffering, working long hours every day.