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The children working in weaving-mills were given the cheapest food possible, they were being used as like slaves and that sort of mill-owner would only want money and was not kind to anyone. The reasons children worked in mills was because at the start of the Industrial Revolution, if the weaving-looms being the first automated mills, if the mill jammed (that happened often because it was the first attempts at automated factories, so we would say "teething problems" happened often), the children were the only ones that were small enough to crawl into the weaving looms works to unjam it. Thats' why children were used, abused etc. If the mill was started up again too soon and the child got caught, lost and arm or a leg if they lived at all, they were fired and told to leave their "job".
These things happened a long time ago, I was taught about this at school. Its' a shameful part of human history, that is unlikely to re-occur because factories are more smooth-running, less dangerous and more civilized than before.

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