WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Children who worked at an early age were often not forced; but did so because they needed to help their family survive financially. Due to poor employment opportunities for many parents, sending their children to work on farms and in factories was a way to help feed and support the family.

Detailed explanation-2: -Children were put to work in the Gilded Age due to the low cost of their labor, their ability to repair intricate components of machinery in factories due to their small hand size, and they were much less likely to unionize than adult workers.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most workers labored for 6 days a week, usually 10-14 hours a day. This clearly took workers away from their homes for extended periods of time. Moreover, early factories employed men, women, and children, which further divided and took people away from their families.

Detailed explanation-5: -Child labour means any child below the age of 14 years is employed in factories, restaurants, as domestic help, etc. It deprives the children of their childhood and is harmful to their physical and mental development.