ple wanted to change the law of how long a person under the age of 18 could work to 10 hours, but parliament wouldn’t pass that law. A man by the name of Lord Ashley was a doctor and concluded that a child’s body could only endure 10 hours of labor at a time without damaging the child’s health.When the children were working, their age made them eligible for many jobs and most often sorted them into the jobs that they would be doing. The youngest of children were sought after to do the job of being scavengers and piecers. The scavengers would have to go under the machinery, while it was still on, and pick up loose cotton. Piecers on the other hand would walk along and repair broken thread on a spinning-machine. After they spent their years as scavengers and piecers, children would grow bigger and they might become involved in spinning and carding. If a child was very lucky when he became older he was allowed to become a mechanic for the factory. Without England’s children many of the factories during the industrial revolution would not have enjoyed the prosperity they received....
