the revolution were loosened. In these post-industrial families women had very little to do, and the tasks with which they filled their time lost the significance that they once possessed. In fact, the woman’s role became equal to a man’s but only because both parents needed to work the same bone grinding labor in order to provide for the family. Child labor became another substantial issue of the revolution. Children were now working alongside their parents and heavy-duty machinery while carrying out the same duties. Due to the lack of money that the family could generate, children had no choice but to work at the factories for as many hours as their parents. This was only carried out in aid of the family’s well being. There were no other alternatives for teenagers to provide income as the only other viable options included prostitution and poor relief. It was thought that children would adapt more quickly to using the machines in the factories than adults would. Unfortunately this meant that children were deprived of proper schooling, if any at all, and what was probably the most important, their health. As a result of this type of labor the English government created child labor laws. It was eventually passed in London’s house of commons stating that; no child working in a factory would be aloud to work more than eight hours a day in any factory. Not everyone one abided by this law since families needed money in order to survive and factory owners wanted more productivity. Uneducated adults were the result of children working in factories doing the same job everyday without any schooling. Adam Smith agrees by saying: The man whose whole life spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ...
