Why Victorian High Society Relied On Child Workers | Historic Britain

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[@IamSnowbird]

You need to be more general with your titles. This one describes a small part of the video not the main topic.

[@conveyor2]

Child labour was the norm and wasn't even questioned until industrialisation. Before that every child on a farm worked as soon as possible.

[@cambridgeunidreamer7225]

I love British so much but I hate not being a Britain 😭

[@nomahope3182]

Oliver Twist

[@leanordials8008]

These children were kept as slaves.

[@emilycooper9908]

Americans used child labor too. I’m proud of my grandpa who worked for the coal industry since he was able to hold a coal hammer. He was helping to provide for his family and he taught us work ethic. Yes it was dangerous but it helped people develop common sense. Youth these days don’t want to work but demand they deserve equality in every situation. They’re willing to bully and abuse each other instead of working and building relationships through their shared struggles. Kids earned the respect of their peers and became leaders. My grandfather had to work instead of finishing school but the local high school accepted him on the football team. He educated himself using lessons other players were participating in classes. It was a different time and he was one of the smartest men I have known.

[@lisapop5219]

It's hard to believe that shows talked about having pride in the history not so long ago.

[@keelyjohnson462]

722 yeah that's my problem about the pollution in all of our air land and water then it builds up in our mothers and then when we're born it's already in US that's happening to all the animals too because it was happening to the plants that's the point about love and marriage is the survival of the species

[@joanhuffman2166]

Victorian England relied on child labor because Hanoverian England relied on child labor because Stuart England relied on child labor, because Tudor England relied on child labor, because Plantagenet England relied on child labor because until the industrial revolution everyone was too poor to not have children working. The only alternative to child labor in Victorian England was child starvation.

[@joycemanieri2304]

It may have a ‘Normal’ acceptable practice back then. But leave it up to royaltiy and nobility to use children for their own greedy gain. 😢😢😢

[@user-co1ex9yn3m]

英語なので分かりません。

[@arlendriver4113]

1st!!!

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Boo work

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