cause according to [this article](https://www.historycrunch.com/child-labor-in-the-industrial-revolution.html#/) children as young as 4 years old used to be employed, but that just seems incredibly counter productive. most 4 year olds i know cant even tie their shoes. cause once a child can function without supervision without dying (so 9-12) i can see why from their fucked point of view they would use child labor, but i feel like the resources needed to train and keep the children alive would far outweigh the reward for basically free labor
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Childhood meant something completely different then, especially for poor people. It wasn’t sentimentalized and if you survived infanthood you were basically a little adult, and as others have pointed out too, poor kids were a dime a dozen and replaceable.
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