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= Title: Child Labor: A Growing Crisis=

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=== Child Labor was wrong because the children were forced to work in extremely horrible environments when they worked in factories. The factories were damp, dark, and dirty and the children had to work heavy and dangerous machines. Their safety was often neglected because the owners of the factories just wanted efficiency, so they did not care about the children's safety. If the child did not work up to quota, they would be put through verbal and physical abuse. They worked extremely long hours, between 10 and 18 hours a day, seven days a week, just to earn one dollar. ===

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This is a picture of young boys who work in a factory because of child labor. None of them look very clean or happy, normally because no children that worked in factories ever were. Children were employed very cheaply, which is what led to such a high rise in the number of children working in the early industrial revolution. Families would often move from their farms to the newly industrialized cities to find work because there were a lot more job opportunities. When the families moved to the cities, they would be in such a low-level of poverty that all able-members of the family had to go to work, including the children.

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Canada and the World. "Child Labor." //CanadaandtheWorld.com//. N.p., 14 Nov. 2011. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. .