British labor laws
child labor
coal mines
poor working conditions
Miranda Yzaguirre
It is a sad thing to realize how horrible working conditions used to be for children. I can’t imagine being a parent and having to send my child to work for 12 hours or more a day just to put food on the table. Parents knew the risks but still were just desperate for money. One thing this article left me wondering about was how the economy was affected by the loss of all of those child workers. I also wonder what the death rate was. The first picture underneath the title is devastating to look at, which made it a perfect hook for people to want to read this article. Very informative and well written.
30/08/2017
5:05 pm
Benjamin Voy
Coming from Britain, this article stuck out to me. It was extremely interesting to find out that such young children would be given such dangerous jobs. I can’t even remember when I was 4 as it was so long ago but I know that I was doing nothing of this magnitude. Its incredible to see how times and have changed and clearly all the work that was put in back then allows for our new generation to have such an ‘easy’ life.
01/09/2017
5:05 pm
Ryann Cervantes
Not only was this article interesting and very informative, but it also made me feel sympathy for children back then. It must have been horrible having to work from such young ages, and even for the parent’s to have to force their kids into that life. It also made me appreciate more the fact that our society has progressed far enough that, at least in this country, we don’t need to resort to those measures.
01/09/2017
5:05 pm
Troy Leonard
its very shocking how the children back then were living. their whole childhood was stripped from them to work in hard labor jobs. the type of conditions that they were living in is even worse, sitting in dark small areas I couldn’t only imagine what the were felling. I’m glad that children today don’t have to go through this type of life and I would never want to hear children complaining about their lives after hearing how kids in Britain were treated
01/09/2017
5:05 pm
Jasmine Martinez
This article was very informational, and it showed me more about child labor that I didn’t know. I think it really opened another perspective on how much of a privilege it is to be able to say I grew up at a time when child labor wasn’t being enforced. It’s very sad to think or try to place myself in those kinds of conditions and hours of work, so I can only imagine how much worse it was on those children.
06/09/2017
5:05 pm
Karina Nanez
This was fantastic reporting on a dark subject involving the industrial revolution that not many people know about. So many children suffered terrible and sometimes fatal health consequences from all the dust and weight they were forced to inhale and push around respectively. Absolutely awful considering that these children worked to sustain their families and help put food on the table.
06/09/2017
5:05 pm
Ernie Sano
Mankind has undergone periods of severe hardship. Ideologies and morals change, causing the willingness of society to deal with these hardships to decrease drastically. Compassion renders ideas such as unconstitutional child labor void in their effectiveness to raise the country up as a whole. While I do not agree with the ideas of those that lived in the discussed time period, I do acknowledge that the ethical dilemma that would be present today is nonexistent due to different mindsets in time.
08/09/2017
5:05 pm
Ezequiel De La Fuente
What a horrible thing that the children of England and of that time had to experience. It’s very sad, but nonetheless history. I’m glad society tells the stories, such as your informative article, to aware other of what happened and so that history is not doomed to repeat itself. This article was very well written and it makes me be grateful that things like this aren’t happening today, at least in America.
08/09/2017
5:05 pm
Alexis Renteria
This article just breaks my heart. I cant imagine my siblings having to work for so long in these terrible conditions. Furthermore, the fact that parents were okay with their young children working in such dangerous conditions is not right, even if they need the money. Overall, this was a greatly written article touching on a very sad but interesting topic, and it does a very good job of showing what children had to go through back then.
11/09/2017
5:05 pm
Thomas Fraire
This article is really sad, I couldn’t even imagine working a 12 hour shift at my job as a lifeguard. But little children were forced to work and were underpaid and their work conditions sucked. But at the end of the day they did what they had to in order to help put food on the table and take care of there family and that’s really admirable. I think in society we forget that life could be a lot worse and this is a reminder of that fact.
28/08/2017
5:05 pm