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CRUELTY AND NEGLECT People begin to build the first factories and there are very few regulations about working conditions. Some employers take advantage of this. There are complaints about long hours and low wages and concerns about child labour; although children always have helped their parents in workshops and the fields. But the main new concerns, nowadays, are the dangers to health in the factories and mines: noise, heat, overcrowding, and the explotation of women and children. Women are usually paid half and children a third of man´s wage. So many employers are tempted to use women and children to do the work more suited to full-grown men. The factory bell and the relentless machines now rules the lives of workers who had been used to controlling their own hours and methods of work. Every factory is damp, dusty and noisy. Spinning and weaving machines are defeaning with fluff and cotton dust...

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