You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have
Textile workers
Cotton manufacture
Great britain, history, juvenile literature
Child labor
Great britain, history
Occupations
Social conditions
Juvenile literature
History
The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?
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