World War I-era Factory work: women (Source)
Typical industrial factory (Source)
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"While
thousands of children worked down the mine, thousands of others worked
in the cotton mills. The mill owners often took in orphans to their workhouses,
they lived at the mill and were worked as hard as possible. They spent
most of their working hours at the machines with little time for fresh
air or exercise. Even part of Sunday was spent cleaning machines. There
were some serious accidents, some children were scalped when their hair
was caught in the machine, hands were crushed and some children were killed
when they went to sleep and fell into the machine."
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