Joshua Freeman, history professor at Queens College, explained the advent of child labor during the Industrial Revolution in England. He also discussed the Luddite movement and protests that ...

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Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution ... This eight-year-old girl, working at a nearby cranberry farm that same year, was also ...