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I feel blessed to have not been born during that period.

This was a punch to the heart. There are still children suffering now in some parts of the world.

And while every comment sais oh good thing I wasnt born in the 1800's ,or comparing these young boys to men today. The real sad truth here is that everything in this video is still happening in 3rd world countries.THIS IS NOT A THING OF THE PAST.

"Hope you enjoyed this video" Wtf? I will have nightmares...thank you

My grandpa was a breaker boy, he broke his fingers frequently, and only had a 7th grade education, and worked in the coal industry for 40 years.

My Grandmother started working in a factory at the age of 9.

I don’t like kids But if I could I would adopt every one of these kids and keep them happy.

We are ALL lucky these days. No matter what you are going through It could of been much worse.

My grandmother started work in a lace factory when she was eight. They liked to use small children so they could make finer lace.

My grandfather was a child laborer in a coal mine in Harlan Kentucky back in the 1930's... He was white, And he was forced to work by the Coal camp (Unpaid in any form).... Slavery isn't color based.

How about child prostitution during 1700s and 1800 age consent laws didn't exist or being under 12 and child prostitution was common.

My dad went into the coal mine at age 11 in 1914. He worked in the mines until 1947 and died of black lung in 1974.

but in Mary Poppins they made it look so fun haha

wow,the 1800s sucked

the title should of been 5 worst jobs given to children in the u.k in the past 150 years haha

Poor Children, never had a Childhood..🙏❤️✝️💐

Some of my ancestors were miners. It's so sad to think of them having to do this sort of work

The times when the humans forgot that the next generation is what they're supposed to be protecting.

Big corporations would still do this shit today if there were no laws preventing them from doing so.

My grandfather (mom's dad) worked since he was 5 years old on a farm in very bad and unfair conditions, and my grandma (dad's mom) worked as a maid in homes since she was 6 years old... They both had very hard childhoods. Good bless them wherever they are. I feel so sorry for all of those kids, and people who work so so hard and live miserable lives. They deserve more recognition.

I remember reading a story or two back in the 60's, someone writing about home renovations on the row houses in England. Whenever a chimney was cemented shut or blocked off from being used for many years was an indicator there might be a kid in it who got lodged in the chimney while cleaning it. Rather then saving the kid the business owner would walk away leaving the kid screaming for help..it was common that kids would get stuck in the chimney's, many times the owners of the homes would fork out the expense to get the kid out,.or just cement over the openings to dampen the screams of the child. A century later renovators would come in to upgrade the homes taking out the old stack then find the bones of a child lodged half-way up a chimney. Growing up in the 50's and 60's in rural America it was a common family tradition to have their kids working the family farms. I started to work not only on our 60 head farm, but every farm within a 20 mile radius of my home. I was put to work when i turned 5 yrs old. Anyone growing up on farms knows what different job tasks there is to keeping a farm going. Today's Doctors wonder how it is that so many older people who grew up the rural ares's now have respiratory illnesses along with crippling bone and muscular disabilities. We didn't think of it as slavery back then,rather something we had to do for the family and to have enough money for our Friday night outings. Now when i look back at it, making a silver dollar a day from the other farmers was not an equal trade-off for what I am going through today. There seemed to be that there were no child labor laws back then,.if there were laws they were not enforced.

My grand father was a chemney sweep. He died 91 years old. He was pretty angry to his "boss".

That sucks. I'm glad I did not live then, or my kids.

Child prostitution was bit of a common thing in those days. Men would often prefer underage girls who had either been sold or snatched off the street because chances were they were still virgins and still had their innocence. This though in the Victorian era did see people attempt to put a stop to this type of exploitation.

As a kid, I allways thought that cleaning my room was about as bad as it gets. Next to helping out with the dishing, of course.

Another suggestion would be the kids who worked in match stick factories, the fumes from the chemicals they used in making the matches in the old days could give the kids Phossy jaw, a disease that ate away the jaw bone.

I'm a child and watching that made me feel bad when I complain that I get too much homework

The kids in these photos pose with more pride than a lot of co-workers I have.

And here we have the black people that says how we had it sooooo nice because we were white

its amazing that anyone survived their childhood and made it into adulthood back in those days

This video is incredibly heart breaking, and what's even more tragic is that child labor in super dangerous conditions is still common place in many countries, but it's something that needs to be known. If you ignore history, you're doomed to repeat it. Learn of it, and learn from it.

Humanity is Messed up.

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Heartbreaking! Heartbreaking to look at the sad little, faces of little children unloved, stolen off their parents or taken from orphanages at age four to work 16-18 hours a day. I was horrified especially with the job the little kids had to do going under the cotton manufacturing machinery, being de-captitated, hands ripped off, scalped - the lot! And never being allowed out of the place, and hearing the continual loud machinery, little if any sleep, beatings if they can't pick enough cotton scraps up and little food. The speaker said they lived in constant terror and anxiety from the situation. They no doubt had little time to feel homesick or to long for good food, they just spent every moment of their miserable lives, fearful of being killed by the machinery. But all of it was horrific!

I like how everyone is moaning about completely off the subject politics. The Rich and Gangsters caused this and did not care about anyone else but themselves.

And now guess where Primark gets all the cheap clothers from.....

It's sad knowing how far humanity devolves without legislation.

This is why government regulations on companies are important. If they can get away with it and the people are desperate enough for money, they will totally disregard safety and quality of life for their employees

Human history sure is a blight on our existence.

That is sad. Thanks for the educating videos! You're the best

That's fu#king horrible!

As a father of a 7y old son my heart hurts from watching this.

Did anyone notice “such dangers looming overhead” while literally talking about the dangers of a loom being over your head?

I have an uncle who worked with my grandfather as a timber-getter, by the time he was 15 (he also witnessed his fathers’ death at 15), & my grandmother had left school to work picking beans for ‘1 ‘n 6 an hour’ (pre-decimalisation in Australia) by the time she was 13.

The industrial age was an awful time for many. Thankfully, workers have gained more rights, and humans have learned a lot over the years.

I LOVE how in depth and long your videos are and narrated instead of text is truly appreciated! you gained a new sub forsure! CHEERS!

I've worked in Swedish industrial service groups where we go out to different plants to clear filters etc. This required me to work in enclosed small mine-shafts that contained about 200 6 meter long filter hoses a shaft. It was filled with layers of chalk dust and the word SWEATING got a new meaning to me! But again those hardships were nothing compared to what these KIDS did go through!!! Great video, makes me appreciate life more!

Children used to be seen as fairly expendable, most did not survive to adulthood no matter what. The part in the beginning about any minor cut or scrape being potentially fatal, yeah that wasn't because filthy conditions, it would still be true today if not for antibiotics. So people compensated by having 5-7 children on average, or well however much the wife could manage to squeeze out, knowing full well most of them would not survive until adulthood.

today's children think they have a hard life because they have to stop playing fortnite to go to bed because they have school next day

My aunt sold candies and knick knacks on the streets of Brazil at age 8 after her father left the family. She's in her 40s now but still only has a 3rd grade education 😕 The only types of jobs she can get are housekeeping, pet sitting things like that but she's done ok for herself. She had a catering business at one point. Even knows construction work. Very resilient woman.

My God the brutal effrontery of the class system in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

you forgot retail

Children are still used in dangerous jobs today, such as child soldiers.

This is why we need more *Scientists and Engineers* to eliminate labourious dangerous operations

2018: Kids play fortnite and brag about getting a #1 Battle Royale win 18th-19th Century: Kids work their asses off in dangerous conditions often with injuries or fatalities

why not talk about the mine boys of WWII? when England and France forced German boys to clear land mines

My Great Grandmother Rose (I knew her because she was married at 13) went to work at 7 years old at a factory she told me.She had a box pulled up to the machine in order to work!

My Dad was a coal miner at 12. At 13 he was drilling holes with a star chisel and hammer to set the Dynamite charges which he also set off. At 13 the coal mines in southern Il closed up so he was sent to Iowa to be a miner. This was 1920

You forgot about "making the bed". smh.

good voice and writing. Subbed after 30 seconds!

Good God! How could people who weren't even owners of those companies, ignore the problem of child labor that was going on around them?!

I visited a lead mine tour in the Peak District in England. Children from the local orphange, co-located to the mine to provide labor, were sent to work 12 hours a day, standing in cold water up to their knees, holding a candle in their mouths, to hack at the rock face. Their average life expectancy, 27 years

Children in Asia spend more then 14 hours per day working in the textiles industry. It's a shame because I don't think they have enough time to finish my smartphone.

Sadly, there hasn't been a segment in our human history that hasn't stop dealing with slavery, illegal child labor workers, forced prostitution, and the like. Unknown5 Thank you for the educational videos. Please continue to post.

What about the children, who where given the task of securing valuables and scrap metal from dead bodies after battles or sieges all over history. They will be in constant terror for searching the bodies of horrificly injured soldiers or even have to take goods from soldiers who were left to die on the battlefield. Diseases and infections were common and later in history also the constant possibility of delayed explosions of mortargrenades or charges was a terror for the young kids. Usually children were chosen for this task, because man had to fight and woman were needed to supply food, clothes and love to the soldiers.

this was a heartbreaking video, no child should ever go through this :(

this breaks my heart.

So incredibly chilling. It's incredible how horrible we are to children. And corporations will happily go back to this if we let them. They already make it so a large portion of our country can't support themselves, much less families.

loving the videos man, keep it up. Never knew half of these jobs existed.

If everything was up to free capitalism, kids would be still working these or similar jobs.

Well done , educationally brilliant and so well delivered too , it is equal to ten classes with excellent research and photos to match , the gravity and urgency of each case is not over dramatised but yet speaks volumes . Keep making many more please , so worthwhile from a teacher's perspective .

Grown men today cry and need safe spaces smh.

I think you nailed it on this one. All those were excellent examples of children's lives at that time. We always think of how neat it would have been to live in the Victorian Period when in reality it was just the opposite. Childhood diseases killed and pollution of the air, soil and water was rampant. It's no wonder alcoholism was so widespread because if you drank the untreated water you subjected yourself to who knows what kind of disease such as cholera, malaria, or typhoid. There's a book that's called, "The Good Ole Days....Were Terrible!" highlights many of the horrors of living in the 19th century anywhere. Scary very scary!

These videos are really educational and great to put in the background on bike rides or going to sleep! Keep up the good work, love the videos

Your voice is so relaxing that it even makes the content of these videos pleasant to watch. :D Excellent work, BTW, I really enjoy them!

Informative and heartbreaking.

Thank God for child protection laws.

I went to whales for a holiday this year, I visited a slate mine. The tour guide said 'Children would work up to 12 hours a day have only one break which is as long as five minutes and only get paid 12p.' which you cant even afford a bag of doritos with 12p you cant afford anything. wow... but these werent only children, teenagers and grown ups.

In 1967 at the age of 15 I started work as an apprentice fitter in the Steel Works of Sheffield. The only Health and Safety talk I can remember from that period - “ If it’s not safe, send lad in, that’s what he is here for”. These days of course many of the traditional smoke stack industries have moved to low cost countries, where all this is out of sight.

I feel kids should learn to work, just more kid friendly.

This sounds alot like slavery to me. No mention of the guaranteed sexual asualts and didoling of those poor kids. A millenial crys about the Wi-Fi stuff them in a chimney and stab there feet with pins. This time period isn't all that far back either.

All my family worked the pits in the north east of England, and I remember being told that when my Granda's brother was killed in the pit he was brought back to his Mam's house in a wheel barrow.

This is evil! How could people do this!

Heartbreaking. And to think that these are the white people we're taught were "privileged."

It wasn't just in Victorian times when children became coal miners. My grandfather became one in 1939 at the age of 11. Had to drop out of grade 6 for it.

This is what happens when Capitalists are not regulated

How the hell did prostitution not even make the top 5?

I clicked on this and the realized I didn't want to watch it..

And kids these days think life is rough if they don't have a new phone

Let's all not forget that these horrific child laborers are still around to this day, we should research which companies support them and make sure we do not buy their products.

I'm surprised a lot of people don't know these jobs existed for children back in the day.

The brother of my great-great-grandma found a job in the coal mine at the age of 9. My great-great-grandma was 4 then. Their mother had died and their father spent all his money on booze. He died at the age of 13 of a firedamp accident.

Ah, the joys of unregulated capitslism...

I remember taking my grandad to the doctor once and he had a cough. The doctor asked him if he smoked and he replied just a pipe now. The doctor asked when he started and he said, when I went to work. The doctor asked, when was that? My grandad replied, when I was eleven 😀.

Now I'm grateful, I'm 14 years old at the moment and work on a farm nearby and get paid £4 an hour with me working around 10 hours a day, i thought i was underpaid but after watching this i can't help but be grateful.

i worked in a factory under age. pretty much a mule scavengers. although it was to collect small scraps of sharp metal from under pounding machine that you could feel through your whole body.

Native americans did not have this mess but they were called "savages"

Simon Whistler, unknown 5, lazy masquerade... There's something I just really appreciate about an English fellow giving me a history lesson. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

now we have teens with 2 jobs? paying bills, living in own apartment, paying for car, and attending school. things didn't change.