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📖 Read on Archive.org (external link, opens in new tab)- Author
- John Malam
- Publisher
- Book House
- Pages
- 32
- Series
- The danger zone
- Readers
- 5.0★ (1)
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
2007 · Book · John Malam
Textile workersCotton manufactureSocial conditionsHistoryJuvenile literatureGreat britain, history
The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better? by John Malam