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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 .