NEWS
Child Labor Gone Wrong Anne Christian Robertson
Fairy Floss
Many families think sending their children off to work is a great way to have some extra money to pay for rent, food, and clothes. New photographs show that child labor might not be the answer to earn money. Children as young as four are being sent off to work in canning industries, mills, and even coal mines. In 1781, a man named, Samuel Slater, opened a mill. He needed tiny hands to reach into the nooks and crannies of machines. He decided that children would be a great source of cheap, effective labor. This was the birth of child labor.
In the 20th century, children are working in factories, coal mines, and canning industries. The children, viewed as small adults, wake up as early as two o’clock in the morning to go to their full-time, brutal jobs. Many of the factories the children work at are unsanitary, with as many people packed into one room at a time. Boys aged around ten are working as “breaker boys”. They pick up pieces of jagged slate off a conveyer belt as it is chugged by bearing coal. Numerous young boys have died terrible deaths after falling onto the belts, and being suffocated under a load of coal. Also, many children work night shifts in glasshouses. In the night, glasshouses may reach temperatures as high as one-hundred, to one-hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit, leaving the children with serious and painful burns and cuts. Many managers and owners of factories, mills, and other work settings, believe that child labor is a form of cheap labor, a guaranteed way to dodge outbreaks, and their tiny hands suit the nooks of machines. Child labor may not be the best solution to earn money.
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