Child Labor
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When the Industrial Revolution first came to Britain and the U.S. during the 1700s, there was a high demand for labor. Families quickly migrated from rural farm areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work and better pay. Once the families got to the cities, things didn't look as bright as the families imagined it. To survive in at even the lowest level of poverty, families had to have every able member of the family had to go to work. This led to the high rise in child labor in factories. Children laborers were not treated well, overworked, and underpaid for a long time before anyone tried to change things for them.
During the Industrial Revolution, when families moved to crowded cities, their situation went from bad to worse. In rural areas, children would have to work long hours for their family farms, but in the cities, the children worked longer and harder for large factories...