Children in Victorian times started to work very early, but just few people thought that was cruel, because children were poor and worked to help their family. They worked on farms, in homes as servants, in factories and in mines.
In mines, they often got before sunrise to walk to the mine. There, children pushed trucks of coal along mine tunnels. Some children started work at 2 in the morning and stayed there for 18 hours.
The diference between rich and poor children was very big. Children from richer homes were well fed, wore warm clothes and shoes. They were to school but they didn't have to work.
Poor children were thin and hungry, wore dirty and ragged clothes, and some had no shoes. Poor children had to work, becasue if they went to school, their families lost the money they earned.
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