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This essay is about the working conditions for children during the 19th century particularly in 1930s, 40s and 50s.  

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This essay is about the working conditions for children during the 19th century particularly in 1930s, 40s and 50s. The resources I used for this essay was a video called 'Suffer The Children' this video contained violent and some disturbing pictures towards conditions children were forced to work in. The Royal Commissions later investigated these conditions. The Royal Commissions were a group of men part of the government who interviewed many children working in mills, mines, factories and farms. They were surprised with the poor conditions these children young as 6 worked in, and the surroundings they were forced to work in. The Royal Commissions chose to search for this information because if they had not this would later cause problems like strikes and revolutions between groups of people. Immorality and vice was a major problem between young girls. Older men would use and abuse these girls,...

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