The American Cotton Mill Horror - The Terrible Cruelty of Child Labor
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- American children, just 5 or 6 years old, worked in horrific conditions. In this eyewitness account by John Spargo, who visited cotton mills and interviewed child workers and their parents so as to understand this terrible work for himself, find out how children toiled long hours and discover the terrible impact this had on the health of their young, sickly bodies.
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I'm from England.i was born in 1951 my grandmother worked in the mill when she was 12 was expected to work to help the family. when the law changed and said children had to go to school, my grandmother would work in the morning and go to school in the afternoon and then the week after she would do it the other way around. I don't know how it was managed but im sure she would have to still put the same hours in at work . she was a wonderful woman and was my inspiration in life. when they make these reforms which needed to be done, nothing was thought about the income which was lost by not having that wage coming in. these were the kinds of people who worked hard for the family to make it better for the children. my grandmother's education stood her in good stead ,and she did well in life because of it. there were a lot of people who didn't manage without the wage coming in and went under and didn't survive. reforms and changes are good but sticking together as families is what got us through tough times. im grateful for all they did.
This is a wonderful story. Thank you so much for sharing.
My father and his brother who were born in1932,and 34 respectively were working in the cotton mill of eagan park,or now east point Georgia at 6,and 8 years old. It was a horrible existence for them. Both barefoot as well. Very poor.
My uncle at five was taking the train in MYC from Queens to Manhattan each morning to shine shoes. He is now 87
My great aunt work as a nurse with a certified saying she 18,19. But really was 12 she took care of people in hospital.
My great uncle joined the military by lieing saying his 18 yrs old but he was 14,15 yrs old. As a Marine in WW2 in the 1940s.
How terrible in every way 😢.
I could never get the detail of why William Wilberforce voted against the abolition of child labour ???
He was visited by the ghost of teenage future.
Profit. He was probably bought by the relevant business interests. Everyone has a price.
@@daveanderson3805not everyone but greedy people are easy marks for bribery
No labour, no food. The consequences of abolishing child labour were worse than the problem
They were very hard times for all. No social services whatsoever. If you didn't work, you didn't eat.
He was probably making money from it!
Mary "Mother" Jones seems to be a wonderful woman, but I've never heard of her until now.
I'll see what I can find out about her; she deserves wider recognition and respect.
Child laborers waste their childhood working, which can never be recovered. It is still happening in other countries and under the radar in first world nations. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
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My poor grandmother grew up in Alabama picking cotton, such a sad childhood she had really. 😢
So much of the early history of this country, USA was a replica of the culture of Great Britain. After all is said and done most of the citizens of the states were from the "old world" and life was simply carried on as it was known. There was a lot of cruelty and hardships for most hard workers, including children in those days. It took time for reform to occur to create child labor laws in the US. A great view, narrative and harsh look at the lives of so many, who are quite possibly our ancestors. Thank you for an in depth account of the past history of our nation. May we move forward from this day, to see that we are truly all " on this boat together" and look toward a day that we appreciate being alive and learn to help and care for each other.
Very sobering and unfortunately there are still countries in the world where children are pressed into labour.
I would like to find out what happened to these kids when (and if) they became adults.
Before I ever knew this was a thing I had a random nightmare once where I was one of these kids. It was a quick dream that only consisted of me and another little boy running away from one of these places and hiding in a field until two men from there found us and stuck sewing needles under our kneecaps so we couldn't run away anymore. I woke up when they picked us up to carry us back the the Mill.
Hmm...ancestral memory?
Omg imagine it's a memory
Time to write a novel.
Pass life 😢😢😢😢😢
As a 16yr old in the start of the 1990s I worked 14hrs a day as a coopers apprentice. Took home £50 a week. And that wasn't that long ago.
excellent one ff ..thank you much
You're welcome 😊
The only ‘bright’ spot I know of on this subject is the Lawrence Mill girls/ women, in Massachusetts.
They actually unionized, in the 1800’s , making labor an opportunity to something better. The mills are now historical sites.
Thank you! I genuinely enjoy your content for it’s verity, no dramatics, just the truth, even if it’s difficult.
They are trying to bring this back in Arkansas.
This is the same today. Just moved to a different country.
Hello China. How's sales to America going? Yea, great. 👍
I love that we control their economy.
It's still going on in the present. Just not in the civilised world, but it is going on
They have child laborers who are undocumented immigrants in the US, too
@@mujergata222Then they should stay in their own countries.
I’ll mention that the stuff mentioned in the video is why the US now has some pretty strict basic child labor laws now, including how many hours a week they can work, how man hours a day, and how many hours past certain times.
I had relatives who were lintheads,as they were called down here,bad job and I'm happy i missed it
Horrendous. Hideous to imagine. Poor little mites.
This is truly 😢
Another extraordinary narration. This may upset some people but I often think the slaves in American cotton fields were in some ways better off than workers, especially children, in the cotton mills of the UK and US. They lived, fed, in a hot climate and had some value to their owners, albeit only monetary. They were wanted as a capital investment. The working class of US and UK were, by some, a hated inconvenience, exploited, paid a minimum wage, treated abominably, had no benefits and were forced into their tedious, degrading and dangerous employment. They were an unwanted capital expense who, whilst not enslaved, were virtually owned. The alternative for them was hard labour in the workhouse or starvation, penniless in the bleak, unforgiving and often freezing streets of Northern England. Plus the prospect of a pauper's grave, thrown forgotten into a pit. Yet not all capitalists were exploiters, but Quaker social innovators, as the Saltaire Cotton Mills and Cadbury's Factory demonstrate. Social history is a complex business evolving throughout the 19th. and 20th. centuries.
I disagree.
Ok I understand what you're saying however they're both wrong and both are types of slavery however the youth labor is slightly different yet slightly the same yet worse than indentured servitude..like the latter doesn't have to stay seven years for a shilling and their freedom..but youth factory working is not much different and the other slavery is not grand no matter how you look at it to own a fellow human is utterly barbaric and sad..yet it happens then and sadly now all over the world..
My own dad born in 1948 was a youth worker..he picked cotton and odd jobs in town and was a door to door salesman and not kiddie stuff it was grit newspaper and seeds and Florsheim shoes and his family needed the $$ this was in a small town Tx usa and his parents both worked but very poor town and wages..dad worked 10 years helping his family till he could join the army for a better class of living ...so dear sir who posted your slavery vs youth worker thing I'll agree to disagree but I understand what your trying to say...but in some cases like my dad's with working parents but just a sad lot in life things like yard work or selling the things he did or a fast food job at 15 isn't too lousy and it builds character..but any kids working under 12 in hard labor is nuts and crazy...yet if it's something safe and easy for them to manage like yard work and dog walking and it earns a few bucks to help out their family and something they want to do then I see nothing wrong with that sorta thing but this stuff in the video yikes 😢
The cruelty of capitaliism.😞
Not so. Capitalism is an abstract noun descriptive of an economic system. An abstraction has no material reality and therefore cannot be cruel. Workers are not invariably exploited and humanity depends upon division of labour. Some of the people exploiting capitalism were cruel but no more than Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot. Ah! The cruelty of socialism and communism!
@@johnbruce2868 Socialism = workers own production. Communism = government owns it. The men you listed were Communists, not Socialists. Understand the difference.
How are you doing sir . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary. As you mentioned before you about child labor in England chimney sweepers . USA child labor in glass factories. In Arabic countries too some parents suffering from poverty . They made their children to leave school , help them in their career farming or fishing, trade . Honestly but on contrast there are also wise parents they do their best to make future of their children bright, until they get their degree from university. As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s cotton mills in USA although coal industry was vital in many sections of country , perhaps most prominent among child labor intensive industries was cotton mills in 1900 , 25 , 000 of nearly 100, 000 textile workers in south were children under 16 . Children were given dirtiest and most boring jobs in mills . Many worked as piercers , tying yarn threads together when they broke . Jobs of scavenging ( picking up pieces of loose cotton from underneath textiles machinery) was given to children because they were smaller and more nimble than adults.
History 😮
Their bare feet are horrific
Careful! Capitalism is an abstract noun. As such it is a conception without material reality and thus, of itself, can be neither cruel nor exploitative. More accurately, some people, not all, exploit the capital system cruelly. That does not make capitalism inherently exploitative and cruel. Humanity needs the division of labour to be successful and no other creature on Earth behaves so. It is THE distinguishing characteristic of humanity. Neither cats nor dogs not even other primates, mutually divide the tasks of living like humans. The first evidence of it was from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) of the Near East and Levant, about 10,500 B.C. Socialism is simply the reverse side of the same coin as capitalism. You cannot have one without the other. It's a balance. All socio-economic systems including socialism and communism can be equally merciless and exploitative in imbalance. Think on Stalin, Mao Tse Tung (Cultural Revolution) and Pol Pot. It's not the idea that's bad, it's some of the people exploiting the idea who are bad.
Ants and bees would come closest to having divisions of labor in their societies. But I agree with your statement completely.
This is abhorrent
😢🙏
Britain has a lot to answer to.
Correction. The ruling class had a lot to answer for.
I'm working class, so I'm guessing so we're my ancestors!
Pleeze... Better a young person works than weeds out and steals facing no consequences.
Greed
CA-PI-TA-LI-SM
The only system that works as we both agree.
Pleeze... Better a young person works than weeds out and steals facing no consequences.