• The vast majority of people lived in the countryside, and lived on agriculture. • Other people would work as laborers on larger commercial farms.

Children lived before the Industrial Revolution

• Farming was still very common.

• Family would have a small farm which provided for their own needs

Farms

Working conditions• Children as young as six years old worked.

• They worked for little or no pay at all.

1. Worked a lot of hours2. They were in horrible

conditions3. Large and heavy and

dangerous equipment was very common.

wages

• Sometimes factory owners would get away with paying them nothing.

• Children were paid only a fraction of what an adult would get.

• Orphans were the ones subjected to this slave like labour.

• The children who did get paid were paid very little.

Little wages

Dangerous and harsh working conditions•Work in mines:

1. Kids could be killed2. Hurt

• children from 9 to 13 years where only allowed to work 8

hours a day

• children from 14 to 18 years could not work more than 12

hours a day

• children under 9 years were not allowed to work

• chidren had to go at least 2 hours to school

Factory act

Laws did not work

• Even if there were legislations against child labour, kids continued having few chances to survive and some still did not go to school.

jobs Work in mines

Work in mills

Other forms of factories

Child labour nowadays

Child labour continues nowadays, some jobs are:

1. cleaning the windows2.Juggling3.Singing in the street

The endNico Sebi

Nicky Santi