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Bezig met laden... You Wouldn't Want to be a Victorian Mill Worker!: A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have (2007)door John Malam
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Describes the many dangerous jobs performed by children who worked in the cotton mills of industrial England in the nineteenth century, work that included long hours, low pay, and no provision for school work. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This was a very interesting book.
This book talks about why you wouldn't want to be a Victorian mill worker. The year is 1842 and the law is that children at the age of nine to thirteen, only need to work for nine hours a day in the mill. Still some mill owners get away with making kids work thirteen-and a half hours a day. Children get played three shillings( about $20,50), and adults nine shillings.
( about $61,50) Working in a mill is very dangerous believe it or not. Every day girls would die, because their long hair would get caught in machines, and they would get crushed by them. Children were always very likely to go deaf, cause a mill is one of the noisiest places that you can be in. Some caught a painful coughing disease from other weavers called Tuberculosis. They also had to watch out for the sharp metal pins on the carding machines, they could prick your fingers. So back then mills weren't really child friendly, and children were mistreated. Today kids are very lucky. ( )