Many of these labourers were children.' Daily Mail 'Britain's industrial revolution - the first in the world - would have never happened without child labour. That's the startling conclusion drawn by ...

Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption ... An engraving showing child labour in a Welsh coal mine. The child on the left is a 'trapper' - they ...

The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century radically changed human labor, with a lot of good things (steam trains!) coming at the cost of bad things (child ... in rural England banded together ...