Avoid working in a Victorian mill

Description:

The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?

subjects: Textile workers,  Cotton manufacture,  Social conditions,  History,  Juvenile literature,  Great britain, history,  Great britain, history, juvenile literature,  Occupations,  Textile factories,  Child labor,  Cotton textile industry

Places: Great Britain,  England,  Manchester,  Manchester (England)

Times: 19th century