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Child Labor In History
Child labor first appeared with the establishment of the domestic
system. The domestic system was a process through which entrepreneurs
would purchace raw materials that would be "put out" to the homes of many
families and be made into finished products that could be sold by the
entrepreneurs. The families were paid by the piece, and so the adults
would use their children to their fu ....
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.... Sometimes, when business was brisk he would work a
sixteen hour span from five in the morning to nine in the evening. When
questioned on how he awoke and was on time for work, the boy said "I
seldom did awake spontaineously; I was most generally awoke or lifted out
of bed, sometimes asleep, by my parents." A girl who worked in the mines
said that she worked from five in the morning to five at night. She had no
time to stop for meals or rest, she would work continuously and eat as she
worke ....
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