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What means were taken to keep the children to their work? Sometimes they would tap them over the head, or nip them over the nose, or give them a pinch of snuff, or throw water in their faces, or pull them off where they were, and job them about to keep them waking.
—Parliamentary Inquiry, 1838
Why were these child labor conditions permitted to exist in Britain during the 1800s?
What means were taken to keep the children to their work? Sometimes they would tap them over the head, or nip them over the nose, or give them a pinch of snuff, or throw water in their faces, or pull them off where they were, and job them about to keep them waking.
—Parliamentary Inquiry, 1838
Why were these child labor conditions permitted to exist in Britain during the 1800s?
- No other forms of labor were available.
- Children wished to be part of the factory system.
- Children were a cheap supply of labor.