Child Labour

[gibbo]

I have really enjoyed my family research but when i think that some of my ancestors as children could have been any one of these kids.............

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm


gibbo

 

[duckweed]

I was amazed reading about the life of Dalton the scientist that he ran a school at the age of 12 and have found others who were head teacher at 16 and Goodacre who founded a school under 20. I Just can't imagine a 12 year old doing that now.

 

[gibbo]

And to think that some kids these days whinge about having chores to do at home yet some of these kids were under 10 years of age and working 10 hours or more a day.

gibbo

 

[leefer]

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6909396

And the sad thing is...it isnt a thing of the past.

 

[Edward]

I was amazed reading about the life of Dalton the scientist that he ran a school at the age of 12 and have found others who were head teacher at 16 and Goodacre who founded a school under 20. I Just can't imagine a 12 year old doing that now.

Thanks for that I didn't know that about John Dalton. But I did know that as a child that he went to the school attached to Pardshaw Quaker Meetinghouse.

http://www.visitcumbria.com/cm/pardshaw.htm

I used to stay there when I was a student. The school room was tiny.

So thanks for reminding me of those days.

Ed

 

[JMR]

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6909396

And the sad thing is...it isnt a thing of the past.

You're so right Lee, it's happening in most developing countries! It was an outrage that our young rellies were used in this way. They laboured hard to make the rich richer, the Lords of the manor and the bosses in the Mills and it was a travesty.

It's just as terrible that it still happens and now these little kids labour so that they can supply those of us in the rest of the world, cheap goods, it's still a travesty, but the treadmill still turns and we still sleep at night in the same way they (Lords and Bosses) did!

Hopefully these little guys will grow upto be as resilient as our rellies grew up to be and build a better world for their next generations as ours did for us!

Jill

 

[benny1982]

Hi

In the 1871 census my 11 year of great, great grandfather was listed as "Employed". Probably an errand boy as he followed his fathers footsteps in the litho printing trade.

Ben