Jane Humphries Child Labor Summary

In an article, I read by Jane Humphries on child labor during the industrial revolution it discussed the various jobs the children were assigned. In her article, she stated that “Children on the brick fields lugged clay to the brick maker and transported barrow loads of bricks, stacking, heaving, and struggling until humpbacked from the labour” (Humphries, 410). As I read that line from the article I imagined how this arduous task alone could physically dismantle a child. I also realized how the young children were taken unfair advantage of by the journeymen financially. They did not receive adequate allowance for the drudgery they experienced either. In the text, childhood and child labor, Humphries also commented on the children’s scant payment