Working children in Victorian Times

1. Chidren in Victorian
Times

2. What was it like for children
living in Victorian
times?
 It all depended on their family…

3. Children from working class families...
 Ate poor food
 Worked long hours
 Lived in terrible
conditions
 Many children died of
disease.

4. Children from rich families…
 Ate healthy food
 Had clean and good
clothes
 Didn’t need to work
 Went on holidays
 Had expensive toys

5. Working children
 At the age of 5 or 6 children
started to work.
 Children worked very long
hours with little breaks and
no fresh air.
 They often worked in very
dangerous conditions
 Children were paid very
little because they were
young.

6. Where did children work?

7. Children worked...
 In factories
 As chimney sweepers
 In coal mines
 In the streets
 In workhouses
 In farms

8. Children worked in factories
 They had to clean
machines while the
machines were kept
running and there
were many accidents.

9. In textile mills
 Many children lost
fingers in the
machinery and some
kids were crushed by
the huge machines
and died.

10. In match factories…
 Children had to dip
matches into
dangerous chemicals.
Those chemicals
caused problems with
their teeth and lungs.

11. Children worked as Chimney sweepers
 Small children starting
at the age of 5 or 6
had to climb up inside
the chimneys to clean
them.The work was
dangerous and
painful.

12. Children worked in coal mines
 What jobs did they do
in the mines?
 Were they
dangerous?

13. They worked as drawers or trappers…

14. Children in the streets
 They sold flowers,
bootlaces, matches or
buttons.
 They polished shoes
 They ran errands
 They swept busy
roads.

15. When did children stop working?
 Many efforts were made to finish with
children labour and send them to
school, but it wasn’t easy.
 Poor families needed the extra
money so many children continued
working.

16. According to the acts passed by the
goverment…
 In 1832 the use of boys for sweeping
chimneys was forbidden by law.
 In 1842 was forbidden the employment of
woman and children in mines.
 In 1878 was prohibited the employment of
children under 10 years old in factories.

17. What about now? What happen to
many poor children?

18. Today many children have to work
and most of them don’t go to school…

19. What can we do about this?
Let’swork
together!