Industrial Revolution: Child Labor

This 19th century illustration is one that is commonly used in text books to describe the Industrial Revolution. It focuses on the child a...

In this picture, we see what seems to be a series of young girls working at a textile factory. Although rare, children would sometimes wor...

In this photo, we see children lining up outside a factory for food. During the Industrial Revolution, factory owners with child laborers ...

This is a photo of child laborers whom of which worked in the coal mines. These children worked in horrible conditions, often having to us...

This illustration depicts some of the work child laborers in the coal mine would do. Since children were smaller, they could maneuver arou...

This is image of a boy working a drilling machine. This proves the dangerous environments child laborers had to work in, which were unfit ...

This is a photo of child laborers who worked at a mill. By 1819, child labor laws were finally put into place where the minimum age of wor...