Children were put in very hazardous conditions with little pay and equipment. They would have few breaks and often worked long hours of the day, and only had thin clothes and maybe a helmet to protect themselves (in coal mines). Even adult had horrible conditions, but children were a cheap source of labor, so they were used more often and given the worst and most dangerous equipment.
The families needed to money. Everyone in the family worked just to make ends meet. Many factories outsourced work and whole families would work on the outsourced items they were hired for. The children could get jobs in the mills because they were small enough to get under the machines when they jammed without the machines turned off slowing production.
they had to live on site in work houses, worked up to 18 hours a day and sometimes got crushed or amputation of limbs from the heavy machinery.
Hunger pains.
Because they all lost there job du to he explosion in the late 1800s
dangerous and exhaustnig
They were lazy.
They were located in the Northern states, because the South was still primarily agricultural.
Unions formed in the late 1800s because of unsafe working conditions. The factory workers wanted safer working conditions, shorter hours, and more pay
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problems one problem children have today is they have to do work and some parents use there children as slaves!! advanteages one advanteage that children have today is they have a law that protects them from being worked to hard and most children work for at least 5 or so hours but the children in 1800s worked almost up to 19 hors and up to 6yrs old worked in factories.
The Temperance Movement addressed urban problems in the late 1800s.
Because they all lost there job du to he explosion in the late 1800s
they lived in extremely crowded apartments(tenements) close to the factories, ports and stockyards where they worked
Lots of fabric, for instance - it was the main cotton manufacturer. (but much more than this - this is how everything started).
Raising children, keeping house, working the farm.
were paid less than half the wage of a man for the same work.
The working conditions in the 1800s were poor and unsafe. There was no labor laws with many people being overworked including children.
Well... sometimes the children were treated horribly, but then as the economy grew it got better.