Child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britain's Industrial Revolution to succeed ... Her work has revealed that during most of the 18th century only around 35 per cent of ten ...

After decades of exploitation, abuse and denial of education during and after the Industrial Revolution, changing attitudes led to regulations that are now the basis of child labor laws.

Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution, the practice became even uglier than its earlier incarnations. Children were often put in ...

working conditions in factories deteriorated further during the Industrial Revolution. Factory workers were subjected to long ...

Hine took more than 5,000 photographs of child laborers for the National Child Labor Committee ... part of the machinery of America’s industrial revolution. You could find child laborers ...

While studying this issue for more than a decade, I’ve learned that very few Americans thought there was anything wrong with child labor before the Civil War. Most kids under age 15 worked up to ...