The industrial revolution was a time of change in which machines helped produce goods more efficiently. This time of change resulted from technological advancements, mostly in factories, which allowed machines to replace human labor. However, human labor was a very big part in the mills and mines. A large number of people were needed to do some of these jobs, and some were even forced into working. The conditions in many of the mills and mines were not very good at all. Because of the horrible atrocities that went on, more and more people began to take notice and write about the experiences. Among these are, Robert Bincoe, who told of his apprenticeship at a cotton mill, Thos Tooke, T. Southwood Smith, Leonard Horner, and Robert J. Saunders, who wrote an influential report on child labor in the coal mines, an observer who wrote about the women workers in the coal mines in Scotland, and Dr. James Phillips Kay, who while being a doctor in Manchester, studied and wrote about his poor patients and the hard times that they were going through.
             Many times, children were forced into labor. They were sent many miles away from their homes and became apprentices. Robert Blincoe, as a young child was sent to be an apprentice at a cotton mill. During his many years of work at the mills, he witnessed many atrocities. There were accidents involving the loss of limbs, beatings, emotional damage, and even death. Blincoe tells of a man being smashed to death by the machine, and said that there are many people walking around with one arm. He also tells about his own experiences, "I have seen the time when two hand-vices of a pound weight each, more or less, have been screwed to my ears, at Lytton mill in Derbyshire," recalls Blincoe. He goes on to say, "Then we used to stand up, in a skip, without our shirts, and be beat with straps or sticks; the skip was to prevent us from running away from the straps." (Blincoe, Rob...