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Description: Article about child labor in the 19th century by David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College.
, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College Child "hurriers" working in mines. From official report of the parliamentary commision. That the shameful practice of child labor should have played an important role in the Industrial Revolution from its outset is not to be wondered at. The displaced working classes, from the seventeenth century on, took it for granted that a family would not be able to support itself if the children were not employed. In Defoe's day he thought it admirable that in the vicinity of Halifax scarcely anybody above the age of 4 was idle. The children of the poor were forced by economic conditions to work, as
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