Child Labor In Victorian England

Have you ever wondered what victorian child labor was like in victorian england? Well, it's not like any thing like scones and tea. Children would climb up chimneys and if they got stuck the boss would light a fire to “encourage” the child or perhaps the story about the little girl who tried to run away but was caught and forced to stay in a dark attic with a adult corps, or maybe the young boy who got crushed and died instantly by a machine. Learn all about Child labor and the horrible working conditions in victorian england.Children worked as much as 12 to 14 hours a day and for a couple of shillings a week. Many children have died from the working conditions and just so the employers save a little money. Children have been betaine, killed by the machines, ran over by coal carts, suffers lung disease, been locked in attics with adult corpses and many horrible things more.Child labor in victorian is very dangerous and illegal. Children should not have to suffer to support their families and should be able to live a normal childhood.
According to http://www.victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/ “Being sent down the chimney the first several times would cause the child’s arms, elbows, legs and knees to be rubbed and scraped raw.” From this you can already just see the poor children all dirty from the ash, and all scraped up. If you saw these children chimney sweeps today they would have scars and marks from when they were children chimney sweeps. They may also have a lung disease from all the smoke and ash in the