great expectations 1

In 1819, the British Parliament passed an act which prevented children under nine years of age from legally being employed and required that no child work more than
sixteen hours a day. In 1833, Parliament passed Lord Althorp's Factory Act, which furt6her limited the number of hours a child could work per week and created a system of factory inspection. Find out about the harsh child-labor conditions of the nineteenth century which made the institution of such acts necessary. What social influences helped to exploit child labor for so long? When were child-labor laws passed in the United States? What did those laws provide?