It seems as though the use of children for labor is very common these days. Taking the children away from their parents, giving the children dangerous jobs, no lunch break, and horrible punishments for being tired or being able to get to the factory on time. .
A majority of parents do not want their children working in the textile factories, however, factories have found a new way to obtain the workers. They have come down so low as to buying children from orphanages and workhouse. Under the circumstances children are now known as "pauper apprentices-(spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRworkhouse.children.htm). Which means children are signing contracts that make them the property of these textile factories. The only reason while factory owners are using children instead of adults is simply because it is cheaper to build housing for children than for adult workers. Take for example Samuel Greg, owner of a large Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, it cost him £100 to build a cottage for a family but his apprentice house cost him £300 and it houses over 90 children.(spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRworkhouse.children.htm). .
Dangerous jobs can easily describe what these factory owners are giving these children. Take the youngest children that work for these textile factories, they work as what is called a "scavenger-. That means the child has to pick up loose cotton from under the machinery while the machine is still working, making it extremely dangerous (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRscavengers.htm). The other job being assigned to these young children is called "piecers-. Here the children have to leave over a spinning-machine to repair broken threads, making the piecer walk about twenty miles a day (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRpiecers.htm).
The food these textile factory owners are giving the children is unacceptable. Many children have complained about the quality. The children are not given a lunch break, they must eat while they are working, meaning that food is getting covered with dust from the cloth(spartacus.
