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Apart from the fact that they were even cheaper than the already low adult wages, there was a practical reason. The spinning and weaving machines had thousands of threads running at high speed over hundreds of pulleys; over, under and behind the machines. All the time, threads would dislocate themselves from the pulleys, stopping or slowing down the machine. What you then needed was someone small who could quickly find his/her way in the narrow spaces under and behind the machines; with agile fingers to quickly put the thread over the pulley again. The answer: get children to do it. Many lost fingers when they had to re-adjust wires while the machine was kept turning or was re-started too early.
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∙ 8y agoThey were used for several reasons. They were cheap labor, they were small and could fit under the machines when the textiles got caught in the machine, and the families needed them to work.
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