I generally was beaten when I happened to be too late; & when I got up in the morning the apprehension of that was so great, that I used to run, & cry all the way as I went to the mill Matthew Crabtree, a former child factory worker, interviewed in the Sadler Report, 1832
@thehistoryguy Not condoning but the alternative may have been starvation
@thehistoryguy That sound like a song lyric. Probably punk band?
@thehistoryguy My grandad told me a story about his time as a baker's boy in the 1930s when a customer got violent because he got her order wrong. She dangled him over the stairwell on the top floor of a tennement block by his boots.
@thehistoryguy *Tory MPs read this approvingly
@thehistoryguy The professor of @Wondrium’s Foundations of Western Civ II dedicates an entire lecture to reciting the reports of 19th-C child laborers and they’re positively heartbreaking.
@thehistoryguy 1838 Huskar Mining Disaster; 26 children drowned underground. Silkstone, South Yorkshire.