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1) Kids worked cheap.
2) Many machines required somebody who was small-enough to reach difficult areas. Kids fit the bill here very well.
3) Children did not have to go to school in the late 1800's as they do today. Sending them to school was expensive. This meant that they were largely a waste of resources for a family if they were not doing something useful with their time, like working.
4) It was widely accepted that children SHOULD be working. Farm children would be assigned minor tasks as soon as they were large enough to accomplish them, and children in the city were treated no differently.
5) The owners are so mean that they think killing the child without letting the dead child's parents know is great! But that is wrong!
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Which group did Lowell recruit to work in his factory?
Women
Why did factory owners prefer to hire women and children to work for them?
During the industrial revolution, factory owners preferred to hire women because they were able to carry out hand skill tasks efficiently and for a longer period at once. Women were easy to manage while in groups and they offered their labor at affordable costs.
How did the factory owners benefit from industrialization?
Factory owners were in fact "industrialization". Because the industrial base of the North was a significant one, it allowed factory owners to buy equipment from other factories to replace worn parts and add to their factory's output.
What was the attitude of many factory owners toward their workers?
The factory owners didn't care about workers, they only cared about the work and money. Also one owner said,"I regard my work Place just as I regard my machinery. So long as they can do my work for what I choose to pay them, I keep them, getting out of them all i can."
Why were the northern factory owners against the spread of slavery?
On a personal point of view basis, Northern factory owners saw slavery as inhumane. However, for business purposes, they wanted to attract workers from the agricultural South to work in factories in the North.
