User:John barros

A Need For Change

By: Joshua Kackley

The Industrial Revolution brought a lot of change to the world we live in. It was a movement from rural houses in the suburbs to small, clustered houses in cities. It sped up nearly all of the once slow tasks in our lives. It made great improvements in the textile and transportation industries. It has made the products we use cheaper to make and easier to use. But, controversy has risen up on whether or not children should be working in these factories.

A positive of allowing children to work is that children are getting paid. They are earning wages that allow them to live a decent life. Also, there are plenty of children, so there is no need to search for people to work for you. Also, children are more nimble and can move better than adults this makes it easier for them to do jobs that adults are too big for. Also children can be easily influenced into doing dangerous and difficult jobs.

All these positives come with a longer list of negatives. These children work 16-hour shifts. This is way too long for people under the age of 10. These children also receive very little provisions. This combining with the long work hours make children exhausted. When the children are exhausted, they fall asleep and get beaten until they wake up. These children cannot withstand these beatings and it ends up decreasing their effectiveness at their work. Also, their weak immune system causes them to frequently turn ill. This leads to low production rates and possibly death. Also, the machines can be very dangerous and can cause death or loss of body parts.

I recommend that children should be taken out of their work force. Their bodies are not well suited for the intense labor that they are put through at work. They must develop their bodies so that they can survive in the harsh conditions of factories. Children are at high risk of death when we put them into these factories. They are getting paid very low wages for the amount of strain they put on the child’s body. I believe that we must convince our factory owners to stop trying to earn the most money, but to try to make sure the workers are well treated.