Industrial Revolution

Great-grandmother tells a childhood story After the invention of first the Spinning Jenny and then the power loom, the factories took off. There was more than enough work for everyone to go around and that included children. I worked in the cotton mill in Manchester with my parents starting about 1830. I was 10 years old. We all worked together starting at about 6a.m. and we would finish usually about 8p.m. It wasn’t that …

…not have to go back and I thank god everyday that she did not have to endure working in a mill as a child. You should also consider yourself lucky that times are different now and that you were never forced to go to work at the age of 10. Consider yourself fortunate that you get to go to school, sit at a desk and learn instead of working from 6 in the morning until 8 at night.