Many of these labourers were children.' Daily Mail 'Britain's industrial revolution - the first in the world - would have never happened without child labour. That's the startling conclusion drawn by ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great ... as a federation to encompass American unions was the National Labor Union which truly came into force after the Civil War but was ...

Before the Industrial Revolution ... A photograph from 1910 showing child labour in cotton mills in Georgia, USA. Children were a cheap source of labour in textile factories, until using children ...

The revolution began in the late 1700s with advancements in agriculture, such as the enclosure movement and improved farming techniques, which increased food production and freed labor for industrial ...

The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century radically changed human labor, with a lot of good things (steam trains!) coming at the cost of bad things (child labor!). Brian Merchant is the author ...

History Today "Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution is richly innovative in its marrying of economic data with life stories. The voices of the children – stoical, matter of ...