Child Laborer during Industrial Revolution in United States During the Industrial Revolution kids were very harshly treated for no apparent reason. This is a story about a young fellow named William Spruce and his horrifying experiences about working in the factories and fields during the industrial Revolution. Now William started working in the factories around the time he was ten years old. There were girls and boys of all ages working, some as young as four. He would work ten to fourteen hours and on some days. On certain days, he would work as long as eighteen hours with a one-hour break period. William would work so hard and would only get half as much or even a fraction of the pay than the adults would receive. Every morning William would come to work as early as six in the morning. There were days he would wake up earlier too. Consequences included heavier workload if he was late. One day, William arrived late to the factory due to family illness; when he arrived to the factory practically out of breath from running, he only turned out being less than five minutes late. That didn’t seem to matter when he stepped through the factory door since an overseer came by and tied a very heavy weight around his neck. He made him walk up and down the factory aisles so the other children who were working can take an “example” out of him. William was humiliated; he had to do this for up to an hour on his bare feet while inhaling the toxic factory smoke. This punishment known as “weighting” caused terrible injuries in Williams’s upper and lower neck. William said working was more bloody then anything. These little kids working in factories would always get injured and some of these injuries even caused death. Every day he would hear of a child beaten to death, injured, or bleeding to death. Children would end up losing a finger,