d run our lives? Have our lives become more complicated because of these inventions?

Child labor in the nineteenth century was a shameful practice that many of us never look back on. A family took it for granted, that if the children didn’t work then the family would not be able to survive. Many fathers would take their children to the factories to work along side of them, in order to start learning the trade of the factory. As a result, children as young as the age of 5 were working 12 hour shifts for less than 20 dollars a day. The conditions the children were put through were less then human, with the poor ventilation that could nearly kill a person, and if that didn’t kill them then the whipping and beating of one would surely do the trick. “Children who worked long hours in the textile mills became very tired and found it difficult to maintain the speed required by the over lookers. Children were usually hit with a strap to make them work faster. In some factories children were dipped head first into the water cistern if they became drowsy. Children were also punished for arriving late for work and for talking to the other children. Parish apprentices who ran away from the factory was in danger of being sent to prison. Children who were considered potential runaways were placed in irons” (Spartacus web site). As for today, many of us take for granted the child labor laws that are in place, with out these laws who knows what the working conditions might be. We act like this was the beginning of child labor, but something that isn’t realized among the working class, is how far we HAVE progressed since the nineteenth century. This may sound like a long time ago, yet if you compare a child’s life back then, and a child’s life now, the understanding of where we are in the work force and how far we have come will be much clearer. A child in today’s life receives proper education, three square meals a day, and a chance to act like a kid. Unlike a child of the nineteenth century who went straight to the factory and didn’t receive an education, their partial meals consisted of eating while they worked most of the time, and by the time a child had time to run around to act as a kid they were to exhausted to even move.

In my opinion, life has become more complicated; by various machines becoming more complex then they were in the old days. People at the turn of the centur

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