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Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Sue Wilkes
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9781036113834.0
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All over Britain, children and young people toiled for hours every day. The industrial revolution was forged with the lives of our ancestors’ children. Their workplaces were pitch-dark mines, fiery furnaces, brightly-lit mills with deadly machines, and mud-filled brickyards. Some workers were pauper apprentices, sent thousands of miles from their homes and indentured until the age of twenty-one.