"Child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britain's Industrial Revolution to succeed", the aspect that allowed the growth of England. The article begin immediatly with a presentation of the problem.
Moreover by the title the intelligent reader can understand the thesis of the article: "Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves". First of all the word "revealed" suggests that the article is about a new of Industrial Revolution. So it has the function to witness and illustration of the real thruth of the Industrail Revolution, an aspect that it was hidden to everyone.
Oxford's Professore Jane Humphries offers one of the most detailed statistical analyses of the period that carry out one of the most serious problem. He found that "child labour was much more common and economically important than previously realised. Her estimates suggest that, by the early 19th century, England had more than a million child workers".
Early factory owners found that local labour was unsatisfying and that agricultural workers were not appropiate for industrial production. This is the reason why they opted to create a new work force composed of children, that are the only human beings able to increase the economic power of England. "Factory owners were looking for cheap, malleable and fast-learning work forces – and found them ready-made among the children of the urban workhouses," said Professor Humphries. "Her statistical research shows, for the first time, the thruth of the work efficiency in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
So Jane Humphries explains precise information and percentage. Her work has revealed that 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 working-class of children allows to provide much of the labour force for the Industrial Revolution. "But a new research shows the extent to which Britain's Industrail Revolution was initial dependent as far as the factories begin to research children workers, became a problem of child slaves. It became a problem because they weren't paid – simply fed and given dormitory accommodation. In the 1790s, there were, at any one time, tens of thousands of such unpaid child workers."
So the article proposes a specific information based on real analysis of the problem.
But what are the benefits of child workers ?
For some operations , the small size of children and the agility of their fingers were the best help for the factories' machines. Their weakness was a guarantee of docility . Without them you could reduce fatigue in a state of passive obedience which men do not let themselves be easily bend .
But this doesn't allow to better their intellectual and moral. They came from factories ignorant and corrupt . During their slavery not only hadn't any kind of education , but they hadn't even received the professional education needed to earn a living . They knew only perform the operation with the machines which had been chained for long years . They were , therefore , doomed to remain mere slaves tied to the factory as serfs to the land .