Imagine that you are a factory owner in eighteenth-century britain. Write a letter from an employer's point of view to a friend explaining why you think child labour is important to the economy and why it is undesirable to improve working conditions.

Question

Dear.......
Child labour is very important now a days. Without children here doing work, families will shatter, and there will be lack of food and money starting to develop around everywhere. Children can manage work very well with their hard effort, and this hard effort will one day bear them fruit. If children don't work then this will ruin their homeliving. children need to work for their parents and produce home income to survive in rough conditions. If children don't work then all ways to produce money will be shut.

I need help on the last part, and I'm not sure if I have started this out as a letter very well, all your help will be appreciated, thanks

Answer 1

Employers didn't hire children so that the families would have money.

Employers hired children because they could be paid less, could be bossed around and told what to do, and in some instances, their small bodies and hands could do the jobs faster than adults. Hiring children meant bigger profits for businesses.

It was all about money in the employers' pockets, although they might use some of the arguments you gave.