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1. Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about why children from workhouses were employed at Styal Mill? Source A indicates that children appeared as the best and most suitable working force available for mill owners, such as Samuel Greg in the 1790's. According to Samuel Greg, child labour provided many significant advantages to the children, as well as Styal Mill itself. The source provides us with a list of factual reasons that help to explain why they favoured child labour. The attitude is explained using economic reason, as it was in Greg's own economic self-interest to employ children, as we can gather from reading Source A. Considering the majority of the children at Styal were healthy and in good shape, substantiates that they were physically fit and able to do the work. Source A also exhibits that the children were nimble-fingered, therefore, this would enable them...

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