Robert Owen

Children at this time were admitted into cotton, wool, flax and silk mills, at six and sometimes even five years of age. The time of working, winter and summer were unlimited by law, but usually it was fourteen hours per day — in some fifteen, and even, by the most inhuman and avaricious, sixteen hours.

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