People usually started working as a spinner, sweeper or piecer in a cotton mill. A spinner’s job was to run up and down a row of machines repairing the thread and fixing the snags.A rough work schedule consisted of getting to work at 6 in the morning, working until 12 noon, having a one hour lunch(dinner) break and starting work again at 1 until 6 in the evening. This went on for five or six days of the week. If you weren’t doing your job at the mill as the overseer expected you to, you could have be fired, fined or given a smaller pay on payday. The overseer could give out different punishments as he see fit. You needed to be able to climb to the breaks in the threads and have small hands to mend them. This was a very fast paced job and you needed to be fast on your feet. It was very dangerous to work in a cotton mill because the rooms were dust-filled, the humidity was around 85% and the temperature was usually around 80-85 degrees. These conditions could lead to bronchitis, tuberculosis, and infections of the ears, eyes and skin. Some chemicals used to lubricate the machines lead to cancers. Also, the continuous noises could lead to deafness.
I don’t believe it was fair for kids during the industrial revolution to work but I think it must have been necessary for them to make money for their families. Children shouldn’t be working now either. I think kids should have be learning and playing at schools or helping out at home instead of working at a cotton mill. There are now estimated to be 200 million children working all over the world today. A majority of child labour is in Africa and Asia. Child labour needs to be stopped, but nobody is sure how to do it. You can’t just take jobs away from kids that are working for money, either for their education or for their starving families. Poverty is the main contributor forcing kids to work at such an early age.
People usually started working as a spinner, sweeper or piecer in a cotton mill. A spinner’s job was to run up and down a row of machines repairing the thread and fixing the snags.A rough work schedule consisted of getting to work at 6 in the morning, working until 12 noon, having a one hour lunch(dinner) break and starting work again at 1 until 6 in the evening. This went on for five or six days of the week. If you weren’t doing your job at the mill as the overseer expected you to, you could have be fired, fined or given a smaller pay on payday. The overseer could give out different punishments as he see fit. You needed to be able to climb to the breaks in the threads and have small hands to mend them. This was a very fast paced job and you needed to be fast on your feet. It was very dangerous to work in a cotton mill because the rooms were dust-filled, the humidity was around 85% and the temperature was usually around 80-85 degrees. These conditions could lead to bronchitis, tuberculosis, and infections of the ears, eyes and skin. Some chemicals used to lubricate the machines lead to cancers. Also, the continuous noises could lead to deafness. 
I don’t believe it was fair for kids during the industrial revolution to work but I think it must have been necessary for them to make money for their families. Children shouldn’t be working now either. I think kids should have be learning and playing at schools or helping out at home instead of working at a cotton mill. There are now estimated to be 200 million children working all over the world today. A majority of child labour is in Africa and Asia. Child labour needs to be stopped, but nobody is sure how to do it. You can’t just take jobs away from kids that are working for money, either for their education or for their starving families. Poverty is the main contributor forcing kids to work at such an early age.
This helped me do a citation for a report that is coming up. It gave me a lot of interesting information
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