The following selections are testimonies from England and Wales collected by Parliamentary Commission who began to investigate the industrial employment of women and children in the early 1840s.

1. Working conditions were unsanitary and the work was dangerous. 

2. Education of the children suffered because of the demands of work. 

3. Home life suffered as women were faced with the double burden of factory work formed by domestic chores and child care. 

4. Men assumed supervisory roles over women and received higher wages. 

5. Unsupervised young women away from home generated societal fears over their fate. 

6. As a result of the need for wages in the growing cash economy, families became dependent on the wages of women and children.

7. There was some worker opposition to propagate that child and female labour should be abolished from certain jobs. 

8. Children as young as 5 years old worked hard hours for little or no pay (sometimes 19 hours a day) 

9. Large, heavy and dangerous equipment was very common for children to be using or working near. 

10. Many accidents occurred injuring or killing children on the job.

My reaction : 

This is very cruel and inhuman treatment. If it is there now-a-days the factory owners should be punished by govt severely.