Fill in the Blanks Child labour during the Industrial RevolutionOnline version Child labour. by Alfonso Poza 1 During the Industrial poor children often worked full time jobs in order to help support their . Children as young as years old worked long hours in under dangerous conditions . Children performed all sorts of jobs including working on machines in factories , selling on street corners , breaking up coal at the mines , and as sweeps . Sometimes children were preferred to adults because they were small and could easily fit between machines and into small . They for little pay . In many cases , children weren't paid at all , but worked for their room and board . When they did earn wages , children often earned 10 to 20 of what an adult would earn for the same job . Great Britain passed one of the first child labor in 1833 . It made it for children under the age of 9 to work .
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