CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN TIMES

During the Industrial Revolution, children, women working in factories and coal mines as men. In Victorian times, coal was very important in industry and exploited children pushing coal trucks along the tunnels of mines which were called putters. Many children began working at 2 am and remained underground for 18 hours.

These children, mostly poor, could not go to school because their families could not afford. Only the rich kids went to school to learn. But fortunately, in 1880, the law says that all children aged 5 to 10 must go to primary school, so that all children receive at least a basic education.

Many Victorian children were poor and worked to help their families. The families had no money so it should work. The Industrial Revolution created new jobs, in factories and mines. Many of these works were first performed by children, because children were cheaper than adults.