Child Labor In The 1800s

How would u feel if your child was working in the harshest conditions for many hours and all they were paid were 20 cents. When the Industrial Revolution started in 1819, many families had to find someone to work or they wouldn't survive. This lead to the Regulation of Child Labor law in 1833 which allowed children to work to get money to support their family. This was the cause of children's misery. Child labor allowed children to work for 16 hours only to be paid less than 12 cents. Not to mention the kids and whoever was allowed to work had to work in dangerous conditions. Children had to work with deadly gas, machine not meant for kids but for adults. The worst thing was that they had to work without knowing what they were doing. The reasons of child labor was
Doing work as a child also meant putting your life on the line because of how dangerous those factories were. Child labor was caused by people going into poverty because they couldn’t support themselves anymore so they had to get their children to do the work. 8 dollars and 62 cents an hour is what you get from the lowest paying job in the United States today. This job has no dangerous conditions other than watching out for sharp objects. But back in day during Child Labor the tasks that kids had to accept could’ve meant that you would lose a limb or even worse death. Even after these issues were found out they still didn’t change the conditions that the children were working in. Many of these children are too busy doing exhausting work so they were never able to live a normal childhood. These kids come home drained from all their energy because they work 16 hours a day. North Korea, Myanmar and Somalia were one of the main countries that have Child Labor problems. Some of the main causes of Child Labor is the Income increase to a poor