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Why did manufacturing hire children to work in their factories?

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It was cheap labor, and families needed money, so they sent their children off to work like them so they could get food and other things they needed.


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They were cheap labor, they could actually make a profit with child workers, and they could fit into spaces that adults couldn't. That is until the Child Labor Laws were passed.

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