the domestic system. The domestic system was a process

through which entrepreneurs would purchace raw

materials that would be "put out" to the homes of many

families and be made into finished products that could be

sold by the entrepreneurs. The families were paid by the

piece, and so the adults would use their children to their

fullest capability to aid in some way. The domestic system

was prominent in England, on the Continent, and in North

America during the 16th 17th and 18th centuries. This

system still exists in some countries throughout the

Along with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th

century came a new ststem to replace the previous

domestic system. The new system was the factory system.

Children were used in this system from as young as the

age of five. Children were used extensively to tend the

machines. Children were also used in coal mines, from as

young an age as six. These children would work long hours

in the dark and damp mines, often carrying coal in packs on

their backs up long ladders to the surface.

During the 1830's the English Parliament decided to

"pauper children", and arrange for them to become

The laboring children can look out

factory in a day, which was ten. Pennsylvania passed a law in

furnaces.The domestic system lived still in the garment

they picked the pieces of slate and stone from the coal. These

working. Connecticut passed a law in 1842 that created a

States government. These laws have been instituted and

Hours Act. This act, along with its amendments is now the

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