You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!

By John Malam

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Textile workers, Great britain, history, Child labor, Cotton textile industry, Cotton manufacture, Occupations, Social conditions, History, Textile factories, Great britain, history, juvenile literature

Description: The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?