Child labour slide show

(Slide show is at the bottem if this page).




1. Which job is shown?

The job shown in the picture above is one of the girls working at a cotton mill probably during between 1850 - 1910

2. What was the daily work schedule in this job that they had to follow?

The people who worked at the cotton mill had to follow a schedule of getting up early in the morning at around 6am, working up until their lunch, and then finishing the day at 6pm after all those hours of labouring at the mill.

3. Were their any penalties for not meeting expectations on the job site?

Probably the biggest penalty for not meeting expectations in the mill was getting fired or getting a smaller wage at the end of the week.


4. What were the physical challenges of the job?

The biggest physical challenge of this job was the long hours of running around, climbing the machines to reach the thread to change it. Workers where often exhausted after all day of working, and many people who worked in the mill had a shorter life than people not working in the mill because of all the cotton dust and you where more likely to get a lung disease, skin disease or an eye infection.


5. Was this job dangerous? How?

This job was dangerous if you where not careful because these machines are going at top speed and if you get in their way, they are not going to stop for you. Many people lost their fingers, due to the machines.

6. Do you think that it was fair that children worked during this time period?

Child labour in any time period is not good, but for the children who worked back then, it was work long hours or starve. Children should have been in school, not labouring in mills.

7. In what parts of the world do children work today?


Children who work today work in parts of Africa and India and other third world countries like children did back in the Industrial Revolution. Many children work on the streets, and child labour inspectors and the media cannot do anything about it because it is too far out of their reach. They often do odd jobs, working on farms or helping their parents with a business.