To the twenty-first century teenage, child labor is a difficult concept to grasp. Sure, children of this generation have had to do chores here and there, but nothing that compares to child labor (although many "smart" kids have tried to get out of them by informing their parents that child labor is illegal...) as children of the Industrial Revolution know it. This reform was the law that made child labor in Britain illegal. It mandated that it was illegal to hire anyone under the age of nine, that children nine through twelve years of age were only allowed to work eight hours a day, and that those from thirteen to seventeen could work no more than twelve hours in a day.
(Lewis Hine captured the horrors of child labor extremely well.)
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