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Report Into Working Conditions of Children.
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I visited the cotton mill in Cromford Because, whilst there are advantages to employing children, for example: requiring far less pay compared to adults, and apprentices not even needing pay! We understand that also they are useful in the fact that they are far more agile therefore being able to crawl under machinery easily so then they can fix broken threads. I was concerned to hear of disturbing cases of: * Cramped and dank/ dark working conditions with an awful stench * Impossibly long hours * Ill treatment, i.e. beatings etc * Poor protection from machinery * Deformation due to your work I talked to: Robert Blincoe, apprentice from the age of 7. Elizabeth Bentley, 23, change the flyers on the frame when full etc. Joseph Hebergam, 17. Each worker provided me with important evidence for my report, for example: * Robert Blincoe had to work in smelly, noisy conditions, with dust and flue suffocating him. He had to constantly stoop to...
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