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Cotton Mills were the first to utilize child workers during the Industrial Revolution. They were disciplined by working day and night around dangerous machinery in harsh elements.The youngest workers known to work in Cotton Mills was 5 or 6 years of age.They worked in places that adults could not fit fixing machines.and was forced to work 16 hour days as discipline.

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