Describe the life of children as depicted in Andrew Mearn's famous book "The Bitter Cry of Outcast London."
Describe the life of children as depicted in Andrew Mearn's famous book "The Bitter Cry of Outcast London."
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(i) Andrew Mearn's book showed why a crime was more profitable than laboring in small underpaid factories.
(ii) A child of seven years old is easily known to make 10 shillings 6 pence a week from thieving.
(iii) Before he can gain as much as a young thief (a boy) he must make 56 gross of matchboxes a week or 1296 a day.
(iv) It was only after the passage of the Compulsory Elementary Education Act in 1870 and the Factory Acts beginning from 1902, that children were kept out of industrial work.
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