The industrial revolution; when rapid growth of cities, the workforce, and declining incomes lead to the premature and cruel hiring of children to perform hazardous work in workplaces rather than adults, who cost more , children work longer hours and are easily intimidated, making them prone to more work. abuse of “character building.” The streets, unpaved and without sewers. The sewers go deep into ruts and holes in which the water constantly stagnates and is so covered with excrement and garbage that it is impassable because of the depths of mud and intolerable stench,” explains a doctor observing the city of Manchester after the city's size had increased significantly. This sudden population growth in the 19th century Industrial Revolution led to a high spread of disease, filth, crowded living, and the amount of labor the city needed to survive. Once the first factories were established, they began to expand everywhere, but this is the first of four main stages of the revolution. It began with the textile industry which embraced new technologies in order to promote the mass production of the reason for the revolution: textiles. As factories expanded, fuel burned and wood became scarce and unevenly distributed among homes, buildings, and factories. It was therefore necessary to look for another fuel, this fuel was coal. Noticing in the two professions above there is one main element, they need labor force and during this time adults were not enough. What comes next? Children. The smallest members of society worked long hours in dangerous situations, which most often did not result in injury, and this did not just apply to children. Before the revolution, there were never any laws against child labor, children were servants and apprentices for centuries. , it was...... middle of paper ......noncompensated because the employer puts forward the arguments of "the employee must have been inattentive for there to be an accident" and the one who is extremely one sided "employee knew the dangers before coming to work", while this may be true, most of these people were forced to work to earn a living and feed themselves. In conclusion, the revolution provided a difficult life for workers, but without the child labor laws we have today, we would still have the injuries from hard work and, importantly, we could still work long hours without any compensation for injury or death. The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in modern world history that many of us may view as a bad thing, but without its absence, the technology we see today and labor laws would not be the same..