What jobs did children in the 1800s?

Answer 1

A LOT were helping with the father's business, and a huge % were farmers - plenty of work! Ben Franklin was indentured to his older brother at 12, and signed a contract to work for room and board (housing and food) until age 21, and the brother had to teach Ben everything about printing. Even into the 1920s very few went beyond 8th grade. Many girls got jobs as housekeepers. In the industrialization of 1840-1900, there were lots of kids in factories, and a lot of grim stories, like the kids in Asia/Vietnam sweatshops now. When newspapers came into common circulation, kids did almost all the local distribution. Annie Oakley, as a kid, hunted small game for restaurants, and got extra money because she was such a good shot that she used a rifle, and the restaurant patrons didn't have to bite down on lead shotgun pellets in random places.

Answer 2

children cleaned chimneys, helped clean houses, and were very very dirty. but usually only the lower class children worked, and the upper class children stayed at home with there parents.

Answer 3

Children in the 1800's worked at many of the jobs adults do now: factory work, delivery jobs, sales, and of course they helped out around their own homes.

Answer 4

they sold strawberries .;l;