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Child labor first appeared with the establishment of the domestic system. The domestic system was a process through which entrepreneurs would purchace raw materials that would be "put out" to the homes of many families and be made into finished ....

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... to tend the machines. Children were also used in coal mines, from as young an age as six. These children would work long hours in the dark and damp mines, often carrying coal in packs on their backs up long ladders to the surface. During the 1830's the English Parliament decided to create an investigation into the mistreatment of child laborors. One child in a textile mill testified that he began working when he was eight years of age and since that time had been working from six o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the evening, with one hour to break at twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Sometimes, when business was brisk he woul ...