3. Looming Mill
Working Conditions in
factories improved after the
Factory Act and this photo,
taken in a Scottish women’s
looming mill, was taken in
1900 after these changes were
made.

4. Child Labor
Little boys often worked in
factories with dangerous
machines. Their limbs were
sometimes injured or even
taken off by the machinery.
To add to this, the children
got paid only a fraction of
adults, and worked longer
hours.

5. Factory
This factory is another
example of children working
in factories in Britain. The
working conditions were
crowded, with low pay and
no holidays. Factories like
this lost a lot of child workers
after the Factory Law which
banned children under 9 to
work long hours.

6. Pottery
This painting represents
children working in Potteries
in Staffordshire at mould
runners. They would even
sometimes work longer days
than adults.

7. Coal Mines
Women and children had to
work in coal mines, since
they were small and could fit
in small spaces. The Mines
Act in 1842 stopped women
and girls from working in
them, but boys 10 and older
still could work.

8. Cotton Factory
Child Workers in a cotton
factory in steam-run
Manchester in 1820. These
children had to wake up
before the sun rose to work
all day with terrible
conditions and no breaks or
holidays.

9. Mule Spinning
Cotton factory in Lancashire.
A child is sweeping the
inside of a machine.

10. Weaving
1844 in Germany in a
Weaving mill. Workers tried
to revolt because of the poor
working conditions but the
Prussian military suppressed
it and the working conditions
didn’t change.

11. Looming
Taken in 1845 in a Power
Loom. The first power loom
was invented in 1784 by
Edmund Cartrwight. New
machine invented that made
work into simpler, smaller
tasks, making it easy to hire a
lot of workers for small pays.

13. Bricks
Pakistani Thaminah Sadiq, 7,
working in a brick factory in
Islamabad, Pakistan. She
makes 250 Rupees, about $2 .
77, per day.

14. Indian Boy
Indian Migrant boy working
in a sari factory Katmandu,
Nepal.

15. Truck
Young boy cleaning parts of
a truck in New Delhi, India.

16. Overworked
A child worker in New Delhi,
India, after being rescued
from a garment factory on
World Day Against Child
Labor on June 12, 2012.

17. Dirty Feet
A child’s dirty feet after a
long day of work in
Nicaragua.

18. Landfill
Child collecting waste in a
Nicaragua Landfill
(Managua). Taken
September 20, 2012.

19. Hands of an 8 year
old
Child laborer in a garment
factory in Dhaka, India. His
hands look like an old man’s
and they show how he has
been worked way too much.

20. Norma
A young girl (5 years old)
named Norma in El Salvador.
Her and her 6 year old cousin
(in the background) fill bags
of charcoal to get money for
their family. They are not in
school and already have
respiratory problems.

21. Charcoal Dump
Child workers at a charcoal
dump in Manila Philippines
in June 2012. 5 million
children from ages 5-17 in
this country work.

22. Apple
Chinese workers in a factory
for Apple, assembling iMac
computers.