I think that child labor was a terrible thing. The children literally had no play time, in fact they probably did not know how to play. I can not imagine the hardships they went through every day. They had very terrible working conditions and terrible working hours. If you worked back during the Industrial Revolution they (probably) worked longer hours than your parents, and these are only kids. I cannot imagine sending my kids to go work in very terrible conditions because I could not get a job or pay the bills. I could not go on with my day either knowing my kid my get very hurt or never come back home because of an accident at work.

I complain about going to school, yet now I see how fortunate I am to even having an education. And its horrible that some countries still have kids working.