You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
A Grueling Job You'd Rather Not Have
by John Malam
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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?
Textile workersCotton manufactureSocial conditionsHistoryJuvenile literatureGreat britain, historyGreat britain, history, juvenile literatureOccupationsTextile factoriesChild laborCotton textile industry