Boys and Girls were forced to work in horrific conditions in cotton mills - dangerous machines, poorly fed and clothed and punished for slow work. By the early 19th Century, pastoral scenes of mill water wheels and animal power were being replaced with 'progress' – steam engines and mechanisation; and here, in the mill towns of northern England and Scotland, the working classes found employment. But it wasn't necessarily a choice – and today you will discover the history of how children were forced to work in horrendous conditions, in the words of John Spargo – a political activist concerned with social inequalities and child slavery. Learn exactly why the system of child labour was evil and shocking, to a point where you might think that use of the word 'satanic' in association with the mills of Blake's poem of 1804 befits the suffering inflicted on the miserable lives of the children, who found themselves toiling in the machine rooms.
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CC BY - Richard Trevithik's Puffing Devil on Trevithik Day 2017 by Cornishpastyman; A government inspector visiting a factory; A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring; A swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cow; Carciature by Robert Cruikshank English Factory Slaves; Irish-Stew Dinner to the Poor at the Conder-Street Mission-Hall, Limehouse by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - A working spinning mule (a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres) at Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, United Kingdom by Espt123; From line shaft to power looms. The operation of Draper looms at the Boott Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts by Z22; Helmshore Mills Textiles Museum Arkwright's Waterframe by David Dixon via geograph.co.uk; Loom rules from Queen Street mill Burnley by Victuallers; Mule Jenny met Lieven Bauwens in het MIAT Gent by Lalieka
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