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Book 2007
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Mill Worker!
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- Publisher
- Franklin Watts
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- History - General
- History - Modern
- History - Europe
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- 19th century
- Cotton manufacture
- Great Britain
- History
The year is 1842, and you have been taken from your mother in London to work in a cotton mill in smoky Manchester. The work is hard and dangerous: you are likely to go deaf and suffer from lung disease, and you could easily lose limbs. Is there no hope for you? Will things ever get better?
