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This was truly horrific. Not just the brutality and terror that these babies where put through. But the circumstances of poverty and neglect which forced them into this Hell.
"...WERE put through"? You mean ARE put through. Make no mistake.This practice is still alive and well today, and on a much bigger scale. We've just moved all of the inhumane child enslavement to the third world countries where we don't have to see it, but we all, as consumers, participate. Our iPhones, our diamonds, our fashion apparel, etc. Nothing has changed.
One of the best, if not THE best insight into the lives of British commoners throughout history. It was THESE people who built Britain, and I'm glad at least FF recognises these poor souls' sacrifice and contribution.
As an English teacher, I have taught this topic and child labour in general as part of my classes about the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. I've introduced it using what I consider one of the best poems from the Romantic era, William Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper'. Some pupils have a tendency to disregard any history from before they were born as irrelevant, but this topic very much engages them. They are shocked and surprised at learning how cruel, unjust and hypocritical society often was during the 18th and 19th century.
What was done to these little chimney sweeps by their masters was monstrous. ( I had to go look up a word that was strong enough here.) Omg, I was just going to ask you about children getting stuck in the chimneys and at 31 minutes into this video you answered my question. I can't help but imagine the feeling of being stuck in that dark, filthy with soot, narrow passage and I can't breathe. Poor little ones, I am so sorry this all happened... Thank you for educating us about this topic. I knew children were "chimney sweeps" but I had no idea what that even entailed.
An interesting side point is that during the planning for the current renovation of the Houses of Parliament, a parliamentary question was raised as to whether any children's remains found in the chimneys during the works would be afforded a proper funeral and burial. I believe the government gave an undertaking that they would.
As always, great channel and very in depth analysis of the horrific treatment of children and the forlorn drudgeri of daily life and struggle of the Victorian families 🙏..and as always superb narration 👍
It's heart breaking to listen to the way these babies were treated. I blame all their suffering on the rich and royalty. They made poor people's lives a misery. This vindictive way of treating poor people rubbing their noses in the poverty they created for the poor. They made the poor turn in on themselves, treating children like slave's woman got a terrible life. Bad enough to sell their children and think nothing of it. Look at GB swearing in their king, from a family that has kept them down for millennia. People become acoustumed to abuse, it becomes ingrained in their psychological makeup. ✌️☘️
Your blaming "the rich and royalty", but not the parents? They had a choice knowing how hard their life would be. Poor children come from poor parents, correct? They could've spared their offspring of a horrible life by not having them. Half the time the poor had children just to have more workers to support the family. There's still people alive today that were born because their family needed more "farmhands". Put the blame where it belongs. Smh. Feel lucky that you live in a time and place where this isn't your reality.
She’s more or less right as the monarchy thrived on brutality, deprivation, class and the idea of seeing the poor as lazy, dirty, worthless and even referred to as venom, English imperialism grew out of this, I know from my Irish history…. They really were destitute and had nowhere to turn
Here in the uk the current far right disaster capitalists of our tory kleptocracy have spent years creating divisions in society turning the poor against each other but some of the ignorance working class people have has been weaponised for this purpose. Here in the uk we have more food banks than McDonalds. Poverty and ignorance is rising and workers rights are under attack. Little really chang3s deep down.
@@pogo9876 that answer you gave is always the same from people like you. I would have a guess and say your not one of those lot, the poor. Most people on this planet are poor in terms of cash but rich in many other departments. If all the poor on the planet we're to stop having children within a few years there there would be no more children on the planet. What would you do then. ✌️ ☘️
I remember getting taught about this at school. Rubbing vinegar into the wounds of the child's elbows and knees to toughen the skin gives an insight into the barbarity of the time.
Interesting upload Sir,I come from a time when as a child plucking turkeys at Xmas for a few pence. Cleaning the market pig pens on a Thursday afternoon for 1/-6pence for 4 hours then later aged 14 off loading by hand 4 ton of fertilizer each sack 1cwt.
My dad cleaned out the chimney with a small pine tree.he youd send a rope down the chimney and my brother would tie the rope to the tree and the two if them would pull it up the chimney a couple of times. Mom put a tarp around the bottom to prevent the soot from getting into the room. He had to do this every couple of years as we had no brush to do it with. It was a big old fireplace so it worked great.
We have just passed laws allowing children to work at 12. And this sucks but there were babies in the mines digging coal. There are babies today working in diamond mines. Babies working in fields. We haven’t really changed much. 😔
Funnily enough, in my state it is legal for someone as young as 8 to work, but specifically only if they are working on a family-owned wreath making business lol
My mom and her 8 brothers and sisters started working the fields with my grandpa at 6 and above. Because the more bushels the better pay for him. Missed school every fall or spring to do it, legally. Here in Washington, back in the 50s and 60s. They can still help in the fields I think at 12 or 14.
I'm captivated by the details of the ink sketches drawn with such primitive tools and inks, quils and the fountain pen. I have myself tried to immitate the style but can never can come close to such detail. ❤
Many children lives working in this era, resulted from the early days of the industrial age. So, basically many people young and old sacrificed their lives for what are the numerous luxuries we have today. History shows this to us. Read about the suffering of those past lives and we discover many of our present day life comforts.
They were treated TERRIBLY..the little girls..and many of the little boys too..orphans, most of them, kids with no one to help them along..worse, if they came from very bad families..these stories break my heart. This was what life was like in the 1800's and early 1900's..is all TRUE.
Last and most important part of my research children in Victorian era were used for sweeping chimney sweeping due to their diminutive size that enabled them to fit into very narrow and enclosed spaces that require cleaning inaccessible to adults. In early 1830s parliament became more preoccupied generally with exploitation of child labour. Chimney sweeps act was passed in 1834outlawing appertaining of any child below age of ten . Furthermore no child was to be actually chimney under age of 14 .poor child would shimmy up , using his back elbows , knees . He would use brush over head , when he reached top of chimney collected soot pile for his master , he would sell it .chimney cleaning was dangerous for kids they could get jammed, suffocate or burn to death , as soot is carcinogenic and boys slept under soot sacks and were rarely washed . The little boys worked from dawn until dusk every day of year . As iread during 1700s chimney sweeper saved life of king George 11 by stopping his runaway horse and carriage . King issued royal decree that chimney sweeps are bringers of good luck , that they should be treated with great respect. Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Best wishes for you your family friends.
Willenhall in the Midlands was known as a lock making district as well as humpshire due to children bent over vices filing lock parts they grew disfigured
People go on about slaver but what would you call this ? These kids were enslaved , stolen , beaten . There lifes meant nothing. Happening right under peoples rich nosiess and no 1 cared. I bet even younger kids were sent up , no 1 actually cared about these babys. Bless them ❤.
Uh, they're both bad?? People "go on about" slavery for a good reason. Or does it only count when the kids are white?? Sounds hypocritical but aight lol
So being a chimney sweep wasn't the jolly good time Dick van Dyke made it appear to be in the movie "Mary Poppins"? Crawling through a chimney though? No thank you. No thank you very much. Excellent video as always, good people.
I helped my old man clean chimneys in the early 90s it was a ton of fun Obviously it was not set up where I was a slave But all the tight spaces I have to get in and clean Made me realize I didn't want to be a chimney sweep for the rest of my life lol
How many times have we read and watched about how wonderful the Victorian era was in Britain? But on the scales marked " humanity" the granite hard uncaring attitudes exhibited towards people less fortunate or lower down the social ladder and the incalculable scale of abuse and avoidable suffering inflicted on the poor and innocent eviscerates any technological advances.
Child labor laws here in the 1st world have forced corporations to outsource inhumane child labor to 3rd world countries, where we don't have to see it, and therefore think about it. Hopefully that won't be stopped there, or the price of so many of the products you love will skyrocket. Until then, enjoy your diamonds and technological gadgets, etc.
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful documentary cultural channel. Actually child labour is very important subject. We too in Arabic countries before several decades especially gulf area as my homeland Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain . There are lack of knowledge the boys when became at age ten years or older worked as farmers or sellers and because poverty too .child labour is crime main cause is poverty . Child labour extreme bodily and mental harm and even death . Child labour can lead to slavery, sexual or economic exploitation, its cuts off kids from schooling and health care , restricting their fundamental rights .
Exactly this. If you create a culture of uneducated traumatized people that only know to labor and follow orders, you create a weak easily manipulated caste of people.
I blame the London Architects for this. They knew the chimneys were cramped and very difficult to clean. A death sentence for those poor children who effectively were slave labour.
I wish you had given us some good news at the end! I hung on through all the gruesome details hoping to how this information led to the pasing of child labour laws - especially important reminder given the rise in child labour cases and pushes to lower the employment age .
Many of the sweeps were their own fathers. They didn't send them all down the chimneys as they began to grow to the size they might become stuck. The fathers had likely been child sweeps themselves, working for their fathers and so on. However, there were fathers cruel enough to, knowing they could easily find another if not a younger one of their own. I have never read it but I bet some of those boys were actually girls.
The worst aspect of this and other forms of dangerous labour in which children were employed (as in crawling under looms while they were operating which could result in mutilation or death, or working in the mines, in conditions which also caused terrible injuries to women) is that when studies were published in the newspapers of what went on the authors who wrote about it all were reviled in parliament, because such revolting details should not be allowed to fall into the hands of decent women.
It was in the factories,they employed violent overseers,that could flog and abuse children for falling asleep or "slacking," they had no rights at all,it would have been better been transported to Australia than this hell hole England..
Yikes this is something my dad remembers being a cotten picker at 4..in the west Texas cotton feilds and he told me stories of working since he was 8 years old selling everything from flowers door to door and fuller brushes and Florsheim shoes and grit magazines and burpees veggies seeds and this was the 50s and 60s..when he turned 18 Vietnam called and he ended up a weapons expert and medic..but my old man is 75 now and looks and acts just like jeff Dunhams Walter and he's always worked but it was to help his family crazy how it wasn't that long ago
I don't think they went up narrow chimneys as depicted. They did go up the wider ones of the richer houses. Sometimes they became stuck and were there to die. The house owners wouldn't pay for the chimney to be dismantled and rebuilt.
So glad i dont live during this time. Honestly ...i am glad i was born in the 70s. I have lifes the life if a feral child, a roudy teen, a addicted overpaid 20 something, a stable 30 and 40s, and now a retired disabled 50s. I had a great time and seen things we never thought. But....i always had a way to raise myself up. These people had no way to do better. No options. They would let you starve on the streets rather than give you anything. Harsh life
Unknown to many is the fact that children were used to clean chimneys because they were small. Ropes were tied to their little bodies so they could be pulled out if they suffocated during their work. Best known story is The Water Babies. Romantic view of horrible situation. It was also mentioned In the book, God is an Englishman, if I remember correctly . Very very sad.
Yeah, and the bad masters wouldn't waste money on rope. Cause there was kids in poverty he could acquire cheaper every day of the week. It was a sick time
One of the things that have always annoyed me most about the 'working class' here in the uk has been the idiotic notion of older people that they had it bad so anyone complaining is to be derided as 'moaning'. Things should get better, not remain the same of get worse. Things did indeed get better over a long period but are now slipping backwards after decades of right wing disaster capitalists who care for no one. People of my parents generation have helped these people by their deferential behaviour. This is why i wiĺl always support employment and health and safety legislation that our tory government is desperate to roll back.
When I hear people who are old enough to know better (my age or older, for SURE have no excuse), when they say how things used to be so much better before we got “woke”, they should be sat down, Clockwork-Orange style, to view videos like this and be forced to face their privilege.
Husband comes home from the pub, drunk but not drunk enough to not be able to do the act with his wife. The wife doesn’t have the physical strength to stop him and he sees it as his right to her body. They also had the right to assault their wives. Nine months later, another mouth to feed and then a few more mouths to feed. Or a couple in love enjoy being with each other in that way and need money to survive (children brought in money). More children were born back then due to the high mortality rate of children in infancy. Life was short for many people and they wanted some intimacy when they could.
*Where Does The Love Of God/Jesus Go ?* Innocent children, robbed of any _"freewill",_ to become nothing more than _a beast of burden._ How anyone can still believe in a _"loving compassionate, miracle granting God",_ is beyond me.
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*_So Much Taken For Granted_** ;*
There is value in showing children today, just how incredibly lucky they are to not have to endure such horrors.
R.I.P All those poor children.
Eh, they'll be ok. I sent em a "Get Well Soon" card.
@@Yourmomgoestocolledge 😐
@@Yourmomgoestocolledge
By the sounds of it, you should send one to yourself.
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@@YourmomgoestocolledgeYour pathetic attempt at humor failed.
Yes. All through history to present...😢
This was truly horrific. Not just the brutality and terror that these babies where put through. But the circumstances of poverty and neglect which forced them into this Hell.
"...WERE put through"? You mean ARE put through.
Make no mistake.This practice is still alive and well today, and on a much bigger scale. We've just moved all of the inhumane child enslavement to the third world countries where we don't have to see it, but we all, as consumers, participate. Our iPhones, our diamonds, our fashion apparel, etc.
Nothing has changed.
They used babies too?! Wow. Just wow.
Suck it up buttercup you didn't live at this time!
Yet your quite happy to buy from india and china
One of the best, if not THE best insight into the lives of British commoners throughout history.
It was THESE people who built Britain, and I'm glad at least FF recognises these poor souls' sacrifice and contribution.
Well said!
SOULS and there we have the iron age ignorance that brought this about
How does belief in an afterlife cause exploitation of the poor? @@gowdsake7103
Diversity built Britain pal, There's even a fifty pence piece that says so
@@JustDaniel6764 😂😂👍🏻
As an English teacher, I have taught this topic and child labour in general as part of my classes about the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. I've introduced it using what I consider one of the best poems from the Romantic era, William Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper'.
Some pupils have a tendency to disregard any history from before they were born as irrelevant, but this topic very much engages them. They are shocked and surprised at learning how cruel, unjust and hypocritical society often was during the 18th and 19th century.
What was done to these little chimney sweeps by their masters was monstrous. ( I had to go look up a word that was strong enough here.) Omg, I was just going to ask you about children getting stuck in the chimneys and at 31 minutes into this video you answered my question. I can't help but imagine the feeling of being stuck in that dark, filthy with soot, narrow passage and I can't breathe. Poor little ones, I am so sorry this all happened... Thank you for educating us about this topic. I knew children were "chimney sweeps" but I had no idea what that even entailed.
It's a terrible thought what some of these children went through, but all too true. Thank you for your comment.
@@FactFeast 😊
History will always show us many dark and yet also enlightened lives
So why was chimney sweeper at weddings deemed lucky osf..sick.
An interesting side point is that during the planning for the current renovation of the Houses of Parliament, a parliamentary question was raised as to whether any children's remains found in the chimneys during the works would be afforded a proper funeral and burial. I believe the government gave an undertaking that they would.
As always, great channel and very in depth analysis of the horrific treatment of children and the forlorn drudgeri of daily life and struggle of the Victorian families 🙏..and as always superb narration 👍
I'm happy you like the narration and found the story of climbing boys worthwhile. Thank you.
It's heart breaking to listen to the way these babies were treated. I blame all their suffering on the rich and royalty. They made poor people's lives a misery. This vindictive way of treating poor people rubbing their noses in the poverty they created for the poor. They made the poor turn in on themselves, treating children like slave's woman got a terrible life. Bad enough to sell their children and think nothing of it. Look at GB swearing in their king, from a family that has kept them down for millennia. People become acoustumed to abuse, it becomes ingrained in their psychological makeup. ✌️☘️
Your blaming "the rich and royalty", but not the parents? They had a choice knowing how hard their life would be. Poor children come from poor parents, correct? They could've spared their offspring of a horrible life by not having them. Half the time the poor had children just to have more workers to support the family. There's still people alive today that were born because their family needed more "farmhands". Put the blame where it belongs. Smh. Feel lucky that you live in a time and place where this isn't your reality.
She’s more or less right as the monarchy thrived on brutality, deprivation, class and the idea of seeing the poor as lazy, dirty, worthless and even referred to as venom, English imperialism grew out of this, I know from my Irish history…. They really were destitute and had nowhere to turn
No they’re right. The people in power could have strengthened labor laws and actually enforced the law, but they didn’t.
Here in the uk the current far right disaster capitalists of our tory kleptocracy have spent years creating divisions in society turning the poor against each other but some of the ignorance working class people have has been weaponised for this purpose. Here in the uk we have more food banks than McDonalds. Poverty and ignorance is rising and workers rights are under attack. Little really chang3s deep down.
@@pogo9876 that answer you gave is always the same from people like you. I would have a guess and say your not one of those lot, the poor. Most people on this planet are poor in terms of cash but rich in many other departments. If all the poor on the planet we're to stop having children within a few years there there would be no more children on the planet. What would you do then. ✌️ ☘️
It makes us appreciate our ancestors even more!
Child abuse horror. Evil.
I remember getting taught about this at school. Rubbing vinegar into the wounds of the child's elbows and knees to toughen the skin gives an insight into the barbarity of the time.
Interesting upload Sir,I come from a time when as a child plucking turkeys at Xmas for a few pence. Cleaning the market pig pens on a Thursday afternoon for 1/-6pence for 4 hours then later aged 14 off loading by hand 4 ton of fertilizer each sack 1cwt.
That's hard work!
@@FactFeast we never knew any different at the time
What are you whining about, you got paid. "Oooooo ah remember when....". Give it a rest.
I learn so much from your channel. Keep it up
That's great, thank you! It's nice to know you find the history informative.
My dad cleaned out the chimney with a small pine tree.he youd send a rope down the chimney and my brother would tie the rope to the tree and the two if them would pull it up the chimney a couple of times. Mom put a tarp around the bottom to prevent the soot from getting into the room. He had to do this every couple of years as we had no brush to do it with. It was a big old fireplace so it worked great.
We have just passed laws allowing children to work at 12. And this sucks but there were babies in the mines digging coal. There are babies today working in diamond mines. Babies working in fields. We haven’t really changed much. 😔
12 years old is not a baby.
Funnily enough, in my state it is legal for someone as young as 8 to work, but specifically only if they are working on a family-owned wreath making business lol
My mom and her 8 brothers and sisters started working the fields with my grandpa at 6 and above. Because the more bushels the better pay for him. Missed school every fall or spring to do it, legally. Here in Washington, back in the 50s and 60s. They can still help in the fields I think at 12 or 14.
While there’s poverty there will always be exploitation. The rich need the poor and to keep them poor keeps the rich rich 😭
I'm captivated by the details of the ink sketches drawn with such primitive tools and inks, quils and the fountain pen. I have myself tried to immitate the style but can never can come close to such detail. ❤
History is sad but, oh so necessary to never forget suffering & not repeat it
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Many children lives working in this era, resulted from the early days of the industrial age. So, basically many people young and old sacrificed their lives for what are the numerous luxuries we have today. History shows this to us. Read about the suffering of those past lives and we discover many of our present day life comforts.
They were treated TERRIBLY..the little girls..and many of the little boys too..orphans, most of them, kids with no one to help them along..worse, if they came from very bad families..these stories break my heart. This was what life was like in the 1800's and early 1900's..is all TRUE.
And still now but it doesnt stop you buying cheap clothes does it ?
@@gowdsake7103no because if I buy expensive clothes it is the same problem. The extra money goes to the rich owner
This was how life was for most of our human history. Heck, it was even worse.
Last and most important part of my research children in Victorian era were used for sweeping chimney sweeping due to their diminutive size that enabled them to fit into very narrow and enclosed spaces that require cleaning inaccessible to adults. In early 1830s parliament became more preoccupied generally with exploitation of child labour. Chimney sweeps act was passed in 1834outlawing appertaining of any child below age of ten . Furthermore no child was to be actually chimney under age of 14 .poor child would shimmy up , using his back elbows , knees . He would use brush over head , when he reached top of chimney collected soot pile for his master , he would sell it .chimney cleaning was dangerous for kids they could get jammed, suffocate or burn to death , as soot is carcinogenic and boys slept under soot sacks and were rarely washed . The little boys worked from dawn until dusk every day of year . As iread during 1700s chimney sweeper saved life of king George 11 by stopping his runaway horse and carriage . King issued royal decree that chimney sweeps are bringers of good luck , that they should be treated with great respect. Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information. Best wishes for you your family friends.
It was horrible work for children. Thank you for your comment KHATOON.
Thanks for that Georgie boy so wanted you to declare poor beggars lucky..not.
I dont believe it was every day, I haven't watched the video yet, but I believe they had a single day off, May 1st, known as "the sweeps holiday".
Fascinating. Thank you.
You're welcome! Great to know you think so.
Great information! In-depth analysis!
Appreciated and admired!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your comment.
R.i.p sweet babies 😢I'm so sorry 😞
DANG!! That looks like hard work!
This made me cry, I have two boys, at least people don't think like this anymore.
I got some chimneys that need sweeped!! Put them boys to work!!
There definitely are people that still think like this, they just hide it better.
Yeaaaah yet in your daily life you use things made by slaves in deplorable conditions :/
Entombed and burnt to death or death from cancer . The Masters were evil .
Are evil. Babies working in diamond mines. Babies in the fields, babies in vial mines… slaughter houses are especially heinous. We’ve learned nothing!
And to think, some people in the U.S. are fighting to allow child labor again. They should be made to watch this video.
The more I see of US, the more I believe it's a hellish place unless you're comfortably off.
@christinehall6441 as a Immigrant to the US from Iraq i laugh at that notion. America and most of the west are far off from a true hellish country
@@christinehall6441 Respectfully, do you know of any countries where being poor is enjoyable?
Willenhall in the Midlands was known as a lock making district as well as humpshire due to children bent over vices filing lock parts they grew disfigured
People go on about slaver but what would you call this ? These kids were enslaved , stolen , beaten . There lifes meant nothing. Happening right under peoples rich nosiess and no 1 cared. I bet even younger kids were sent up , no 1 actually cared about these babys. Bless them ❤.
Be glad you wasn't born in this time you would be a master chimney sweeper
I bet you still buy cheap clothes tho or even expensive all driven by child labour
Uh, they're both bad?? People "go on about" slavery for a good reason. Or does it only count when the kids are white?? Sounds hypocritical but aight lol
Thanks FF😊
Thank you Lana!
I’ll never look at Mary Poppins chimney sweep dance again the same way . Dick Van Dyke was cheerfully dying .
Chimney sweeps are considered good luck in some countries, but the work didn't have any.
@@FactFeast I lived in the Czech Republic and if you saw a sweep it was considered lucky.
@FactFeast it was because a chimney sweep saved king Charles the 2nd life. He then deemed them as good luck and strong laws and pay was made
So being a chimney sweep wasn't the jolly good time Dick van Dyke made it appear to be in the movie "Mary Poppins"? Crawling through a chimney though? No thank you. No thank you very much.
Excellent video as always, good people.
I think this definitely rates as one of the worst Victorian (and earlier) jobs!
Thanks!
You're welcome and thanks for the comment.
20:46 Look at the love and admiration in that little boy’s eyes. He just can’t wait til He gets big enough…
I helped my old man clean chimneys in the early 90s it was a ton of fun Obviously it was not set up where I was a slave But all the tight spaces I have to get in and clean Made me realize I didn't want to be a chimney sweep for the rest of my life lol
How many times have we read and watched about how wonderful the Victorian era was in Britain? But on the scales marked " humanity" the granite hard uncaring attitudes exhibited towards people less fortunate or lower down the social ladder and the incalculable scale of abuse and avoidable suffering inflicted on the poor and innocent eviscerates any technological advances.
And these "people " would have all called themselves "Christians "
Child labor laws here in the 1st world have forced corporations to outsource inhumane child labor to 3rd world countries, where we don't have to see it, and therefore think about it.
Hopefully that won't be stopped there, or the price of so many of the products you love will skyrocket. Until then, enjoy your diamonds and technological gadgets, etc.
Aww God bless their sweet memories and yes rest their dear souls... amen
i am so sure none of those child thieves was raping them children, nope, not at all.
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful documentary cultural channel. Actually child labour is very important subject. We too in Arabic countries before several decades especially gulf area as my homeland Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain . There are lack of knowledge the boys when became at age ten years or older worked as farmers or sellers and because poverty too .child labour is crime main cause is poverty . Child labour extreme bodily and mental harm and even death . Child labour can lead to slavery, sexual or economic exploitation, its cuts off kids from schooling and health care , restricting their fundamental rights .
Interesting. Thank you KHATOON.
Exactly this. If you create a culture of uneducated traumatized people that only know to labor and follow orders, you create a weak easily manipulated caste of people.
Today there are kids in 3rd world countries doing equally or more horrible “jobs”.
Thank you for another interesting video.
It's amazing how they used and abused these poor children for gain absolutely abhorrent. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!¡!.
This was always to my knowledge the worst trade for a child
Yes, simply terrible. A cotton scavenger was also an awful job.
I believe young boys and girls were also employed at the coal face in the early decades of the 19th century.
What a horror show!
Thank you
Glad you found it interesting!
No sentiment in those days. 😢
I blame the London Architects for this. They knew the chimneys were cramped and very difficult to clean. A death sentence for those poor children who effectively were slave labour.
I wish you had given us some good news at the end! I hung on through all the gruesome details hoping to how this information led to the pasing of child labour laws - especially important reminder given the rise in child labour cases and pushes to lower the employment age .
Many of the sweeps were their own fathers. They didn't send them all down the chimneys as they began to grow to the size they might become stuck. The fathers had likely been child sweeps themselves, working for their fathers and so on.
However, there were fathers cruel enough to, knowing they could easily find another if not a younger one of their own.
I have never read it but I bet some of those boys were actually girls.
Yes, you’re right. Mayhew noted that he discovered some accounts of girl chimney sweeps in the early 1800s.
Nothing has changed. The Rich still view us as tools.
How very sad for the poor climbing boys and girls! :((
The worst aspect of this and other forms of dangerous labour in which children were employed (as in crawling under looms while they were operating which could result in mutilation or death, or working in the mines, in conditions which also caused terrible injuries to women) is that when studies were published in the newspapers of what went on the authors who wrote about it all were reviled in parliament, because such revolting details should not be allowed to fall into the hands of decent women.
The Good Old Days.
Western "civilization"
Watching this makes you wonder about sexual abuse. It must have been rampant.
It was in the factories,they employed violent overseers,that could flog and abuse children for falling asleep or "slacking," they had no rights at all,it would have been better been transported to Australia than this hell hole England..
I was thinking the same
Man, and I sit dreading the start of my comfy well paying work from home job :/. These poor kids.
Working at 4 years old 😔
Heck yeah start them early!!
Heck yeah start them early!!
I hope all the bastards that put children through all this are now themselves in hell completing such tasks ad infinitum.
Agreed.
And people whine today because their "job" is hard.
Exactly…
Conservatives everywhere want this BACK!
Henry Mayhew!and he founded the magazine"punch".well we never knew that did we?it's been out for all that time!
Yikes this is something my dad remembers being a cotten picker at 4..in the west Texas cotton feilds and he told me stories of working since he was 8 years old selling everything from flowers door to door and fuller brushes and Florsheim shoes and grit magazines and burpees veggies seeds and this was the 50s and 60s..when he turned 18 Vietnam called and he ended up a weapons expert and medic..but my old man is 75 now and looks and acts just like jeff Dunhams Walter and he's always worked but it was to help his family crazy how it wasn't that long ago
I hate people in general because it certainly would happen again if we lived in such conditions.
The real story.
The good old days? Phew
Shame you didn't include the story of Valentine Grey Aged 10
Well it was still very well done.
Coming Back to a Town Near You..Workhouses
I don't think they went up narrow chimneys as depicted. They did go up the wider ones of the richer houses. Sometimes they became stuck and were there to die. The house owners wouldn't pay for the chimney to be dismantled and rebuilt.
This is how the then richest country in the world treated it s citizens.
Rich and Christian.
So glad i dont live during this time. Honestly ...i am glad i was born in the 70s. I have lifes the life if a feral child, a roudy teen, a addicted overpaid 20 something, a stable 30 and 40s, and now a retired disabled 50s. I had a great time and seen things we never thought. But....i always had a way to raise myself up. These people had no way to do better. No options. They would let you starve on the streets rather than give you anything. Harsh life
Are you saying that "Mary Poppins" was not a documentary?
I've. Read that. A. Chimney. Contained. A. Large. Ham. Well. Smoked. In. London. In. Large house ?
Unknown to many is the fact that children were used to clean chimneys because they were small. Ropes were tied to their little bodies so they could be pulled out if they suffocated during their work. Best known story is The Water Babies. Romantic view of horrible situation. It was also mentioned In the book, God is an Englishman, if I remember correctly . Very very sad.
Yeah, and the bad masters wouldn't waste money on rope. Cause there was kids in poverty he could acquire cheaper every day of the week. It was a sick time
I believe a lot of children and sweeps also suffered from testicular cancer caused by the inground soot.
I doubt it
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Thank you Lynne!
One of the things that have always annoyed me most about the 'working class' here in the uk has been the idiotic notion of older people that they had it bad so anyone complaining is to be derided as 'moaning'. Things should get better, not remain the same of get worse. Things did indeed get better over a long period but are now slipping backwards after decades of right wing disaster capitalists who care for no one. People of my parents generation have helped these people by their deferential behaviour.
This is why i wiĺl always support employment and health and safety legislation that our tory government is desperate to roll back.
The Good old German Royal Family eh...
You really think child labour has ended ?
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Thank you Miji.
The books water Babies, and God is an Englishman have incidents about sweeps.
When I hear people who are old enough to know better (my age or older, for SURE have no excuse), when they say how things used to be so much better before we got “woke”, they should be sat down, Clockwork-Orange style, to view videos like this and be forced to face their privilege.
NOT LIKE MARY POPPINS’ dancers on the roofs of England
Sounds like my Tattooing apprenticeship
So we’ll rehearsed
We're is your wonderful god
Everyone worked... City kids did this... Country kids worked on the farm.... Different times....
In 2023 sadly we damn near need our newborns to have a full time job to afford inflation.
Should really be 50/50 gender representation in child chimney sweeps. We really need to strive for equality
What is a journey man?
😅sad
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The gop is watching and learning. They need all those babies born for the future working poor.
There is only the uni-party to enslave us.
Usually your videos make me laugh. This one just pisses me off. Good content though.
My question will remain. Why in the world would they have children when they couldn't care for them?
Probably because there was no birth control.
They didn't have ps5 and no birth control.
Husband comes home from the pub, drunk but not drunk enough to not be able to do the act with his wife. The wife doesn’t have the physical strength to stop him and he sees it as his right to her body. They also had the right to assault their wives. Nine months later, another mouth to feed and then a few more mouths to feed. Or a couple in love enjoy being with each other in that way and need money to survive (children brought in money). More children were born back then due to the high mortality rate of children in infancy. Life was short for many people and they wanted some intimacy when they could.
thank god for christian west values 😂😂😂
Sarcasm i hope. Bc it didn't help much
Kids are soft these days
*Where Does The Love Of God/Jesus Go ?*
Innocent children, robbed of any _"freewill",_ to become nothing more than _a beast of burden._
How anyone can still believe in a _"loving compassionate, miracle granting God",_ is beyond me.
All I can say is that all of this is a test. In which case there are a staggering amount of fails.
@@LionheartNh that's what yall say for everything. It's a test. Oh please. Give it a rest. It's not a test.