Burnt Out Boys (Hell of Child Glass Workers in 1800s America)

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[@Gumper30]

Remember these images when people talk about repealing child labor laws today. The only thing stopping companies from using children as cheap labor are laws banning the practice.

[@mickieg1994]

I slightly disagree as I think that society as a whole is now way too protective of their children for the most part, however in many countries it's still part of normal life in many industries, including mining if you can believe it, part of the controversy over rare earth elements needed to make touch screens, electric batteries and the like was child/slave labour in some of these countries

[@HistoricGentleman]

Sadly they have already started unraveling these protections in several states

[@elsbet1656]

So true.

[@tomaig5130]

Wait, you think there are people in America who are pushing for the repeal of Child Labor laws? They're so desperate for cheap labor that they want to get rid of those pesky laws that keep them from putting 13-year-olds on the production line? Any evidence of this at all? Come on...name names! Who are these pro-exploitation folks? Don't know which world you're living in, but it's not this one.

[@dylanhaugen3739]

mickieg19944 Not if the same people pushing those repeals also get to cut welfare.

[@brianoneil9662]

The U.S. only instituted mandatory public education to keep children from taking "adult" jobs at lesser pay. I hadn't seen much on glassworks. Excellent work, this was great. As always!

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[@whitetroutchannel]

when you think that in 1831 they had to introduce an act to make sure children didnt work more than 12 hours a day it truely highlights how woeful childrens lives where, my great granny was the mill "rapper-upper'" and her 3 children also worked in the mill, thanks again for holding up the looking glass and taking us into our pasts!! 👍

[@FactFeast]

Interesting to read about your family history and the mills. Thank you very much whitetroutchannel!

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[@cask1]

Those poor babies

[@coconutsmarties]

The last few minutes are really powerful.. this guy was awesome.

[@djscottdog1]

Knowing how dangerous glass factorys are even today having children work is nuts, a broken bottle thats still hot will cut through body parts like a not knife through butter. And you cant sowe it back on cos the wund is quatarised.

[@moondancer4660]

This week's video is even better than last week's!😊

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[@Charlotte66666]

You have fantastic content, thank you so much ❤

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[@mijiyoon5575]

Those shoeless children are frightening to behold; wonder how many lost toes or nails? This was horrific. This would still be going on if not for regulations & laws in place to prevent it. It can happen again here in the good ole USA. Be careful who you vote for💙

[@moondancer4660]

Just this morning I was thinking about how I went to work at age 12. I was thinking how I didn't really have a childhood. Well I guess these children didn't have a childhood either.

[@bennymoreira1443]

Unfortunately the concept of childhood wasn’t really something back then.. Chronic poverty didn’t help people being less stressed about ethnics eighter.

[@FactFeast]

That’s a young age. As you say, like some of these children.

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing sir . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary. It’s very important topic to discuss honestly. Child labor is often defined as work that deprives kids from their childhood, their potential and their dignity and that is harmful to their physical and mental development too till nowadays in USA as I read exceptions including work by child artists, family duties, supervised training and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children as well as by indigenous people.even us in Arabic countries from ancient time some parents made their kids to leave school to help them at work as farmers or fishermen, sellers at shops . Nowadays only on summer vacation boys can work as peddlers and sell goods and girls cook recipes and have simple profitable projects in their spare time only. As always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s child labor in America in 1880s was dangerous at glass factories. Therefore , children were not trained to wear glassblowing, but were instead hire as cheap sources of labor in bottle and tableware sectors as well as kids at England chimney sweepers . By mid 1800 s production teams in glasshouses were made up of two to three boys as young as 10 years old and older glass blower.

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Thanks for sharing!

[@joeymanson2222]

I have a hard time reading cos my eyes are failing and time restrictions. That said I love these Historical journals of life, in the Victorian era and the dawn of the Industrial Age. These accounts give me a great perspective of our modern times. And gratitude, just the same. All of life is good I believe, we share the fruits of the labor of our ancestors. These Men and Women were tough as nails. For now on I will appreciate the glass bottle of my Coca Cola and the jars we save to drink from. I think I'm gonna get into antique glass products now? Anyways Thank you thank you thank you! Cheers!

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[@bennymoreira1443]

Capital above everything else.

[@BadJellyman100]

Truly the American way

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

I'm from Indiana & Thanks FF❤

[@FactFeast]

Thanks Lana! I guess you’ve seen my videos about Evansville?

[@herberthall8082]

It is good to teach children a good work ethics at a young age.

[@dee5298]

I got that from working on cars and building fences. Allowing a child to work in a factory is negligence and only shows how little the parents care for them.

[@m.r.e.5731]

Ummm, not that kind.

[@brianoneil9662]

Thanks!

[@FactFeast]

Thank you so much Brian! It’s really appreciated.

[@MrCombatmedic00]

I think children mortality rates were so dismal back then, that children were viewed as disposable. The children came from large families, where some children we’re not expected to reach adult hood due to disease, illness, or work accident.

[@michaelbeams9553]

This is what corporate America dreams of " The good old days " .

[@francisfischer7620]

Interesting and unexpected narrator.

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

brilliant

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Thanks very much!

[@MegaLivingIt]

Good video. Interesting paperback book "The History of Labor in America" with photos of kids who worked seasonal canning vegetables in Baltimore. Young girl about ten had the tired face of an adult. Before labor laws parents took their kids out of school for the canning season. So disturbing to see these pictures.

[@FactFeast]

I will look that up as it sounds interesting. Thanks very much MegaLivingIt!

[@michaeldillon3113]

Although it was a bit earlier than this I was always shocked to read that William Wilberforce opposed the abolition of child labour in Britain . I could never find out why he took this viewpoint.

[@clarencedavisiii1412]

Thanks fact feast

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[@shereesmazik5030]

I will never look at my Late Mother’s antique glass collection again .

[@David-bg9od]

This is the future the GOP wants😬

[@martinkineavy9039]

Child labour and slavery thing we thought were a part of 19th century never left us and I back in a big way in the 21th century

[@martinkineavy9039]

I can't spell

[@MomentsInTrading]

GET BACK TO WORK!

[@sarahbishop744]

😂😂

[@JackReynolds-w7g]

People will never - never do what is just or healthy, they will never do what is decent, good, what is best for people, or what is right. Even as a child, I have always and forever been completely perplexed, frustrated, confused, and even angry, at the truly unfathomable inequity, the grotesque inequality, the overwhelming exploitation and horrendous abuse of human beings by their brothers. Countless decades later, and still, it just simply does not make any sense to me. But right there is probably my trouble; people are human beings it's true, but not far enough removed from the conscienceless cruelty of a brainless animal. Any Rand was absolutely right-on. So was too much of my own academia. I'd never make a mogul of any kind. My own sense of value, lies not so much in myself, but in the world and people around me. Fool that I am.

[@asasial1977]

I can relate. It astounds me how people treat each other. And it’s only getting worse.

[@Magicferrydust]

I feel this 🙌

[@andreah1104]

And yet certain people expect "reparations" from the descendants of these people 🙄

[@jocksjewelerygemstones8782]

Time we asked for some of that foreign aid back aswell

[@marcusbrown198]

Kind of makes you think about the Little drummer boys at the front of the line during war times

[@coconutsmarties]

Way to turn an entirely unrelated topic into a right-wing moan 🙄

[@racs9606]

​@@coconutsmartiesshe's got a point though

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Thanks Miji 😊 I appreciate it!

[@SlugSage]

This is what unregulated Capitalism gets you.

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Nope.

[@Rippenhengst]

I was 15 when i started working in the 70th. 40h a week and permantly had to work overtime. It was impossible to make a living from the little money they payed. Tthat's why many young women married very young ...

[@robertmurphy3014]

Interesting parallel to todays forced compliance in the name of the environment.

[@mightywhiskas3880]

Compare “political activism” of then to what it is today.

[@sophieholmes5300]

It makes me extremely amangy...not u 😢😢😢😢xx

[@Khatoon170]

Last and most important part of my research the 1870 census found that1 out of 5 of every childern was employed. This rate increased to more than 1 in 5 children by 1900 , between 1890 and 1900 , no less than 18 percent of all children age 10- 15 worked . In year 1938 congress finally passed child labor law ( fair labor standards act or fisa) that would later be upheld by court were enacted to ensure that when young people work , work is safe and doesn’t jeopardize their health and well - being or educational opportunities. These provisions also provide limited exemptions. Regulations employment of these under 16 or 18 years of age . History of child labor in USA often as young as 10 years old and sometimes much younger labored . American children worked not only in industrial settings but also in retail stores , streets, farms , home based industrial. Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English language as well. Happy Halloween. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .

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[@blueflagmusic]

Yea,i bet your not giving up your iphone. Some things never change.

[@UshZebra]

Hello! there be girls... see the girls? girls too!

[@DKyle327]

Child labor was not evil. It was practical at the time, for that time.

[@wilhelmdietrich8474]

We're listening to the words of contemporary writers to the event, talk about how bad it was.

[@BeatsNBassNRhymes]

🎉🥳 congratulations you defended child labour well done 🥳 🎉

[@allnaturaledgedesigns]

Dumbest comment award

[@m.r.e.5731]

Those are the facts, but of course, we are and need to, look at it through a modern lens.