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This 3 page research paper reports on how primary source nineteenth century writers describe factory conditions and the abuses to which industrial laborers were subjected. This includes the abuses directed at children and also at young women. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Industrial Laborers, as Compared with Slave Labor Research
Compiled By - properly! Modern students of
history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. However, the abuse suffered by northern factory workers was also horrendous and
equally extreme. This illustrated by examining primary sources from the nineteenth century that comment on the conditions endured by industrial laborers. In 1832, Seth Luthers sarcastic accounts of wage
labor in New England textile factories were at least partially responsible for the US passing the first child labor laws (Bailey and Kennedy 305). Luther comments that the Senator who
praised the working environment of the factories had visited them incognito, he would have learned what this environment is really like as he would have seen children, girls as well
as boys, beaten with a whip to drive them to their places at the machines (Bailey and Kennedy 307). This tactic was
employed after waking the children at four in the morning and plunging them "into cold water" to wake them up (Bailey and Kennedy 307). As this indicates, the children
who labored in northern factories endured many of the same conditions as Southern slave children, who were required to work as soon as they were capable of doing so. Also,
these child laborers shared the characteristic that, as with southern slaves, they were subjected to the whip when they displeased their overseers. Luther, in particular, deplored the "exploitation of children,
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