HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Question
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small
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cheap labor
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less likely to be injured
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in need of day care
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some businesses hired children because they were cheap, worked hard, and could do some jobs that adults couldn’t do. In some cases, the businesses treated the children no better than slaves. They kept them locked up and forced them to work long hours.
Detailed explanation-2: -Agriculture Children are hired for everything from cotton and cottonseed production to sugarcane, soybean and paddy transplantation, and work long hours for low pay and poor living conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Children are trafficked for many reasons, including forced labour, prostitution and recruitment as child soldiers and beggars. Debt bondage is forced labour, where work is exchanged to pay off loans that people cannot pay off with money or goods.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is Child Labour? Child Labour means the employment of children in any kind of work that hampers their physical and mental development, deprives them of their basic educational and recreational requirements.