| 19th
Century Child Labor |
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| • | Owners of large
textile mills purchased |
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| large numbers of
children from |
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| workhouses in all
the large towns and |
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| cities. By the
late 1790s about a third of |
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| the workers in
the cotton industry were |
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| pauper
apprentices. Child workers were |
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| especially
predominant in large factories in |
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| rural areas. |
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