Children were used to work at home before the industrial revolution, which was the domestic system, then came the industrial revolution and the factory system came with it, where child labour became common in factories, mills (textile factories) and mines.
A great number of children between the ages of six and eight were brought from very poor places or public charities to work in mills as apprentices. They were usually orphans. Their employers taught them a certain job and provided them with cloth and food, but the quality of food was disgusting and in some factories children ate their food while working, which was covered with dust or flues from the clothes and wool.
Poor children! They had to work very hard from about half past five in
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