Number 41 – They invented child labour

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! Child labour has been around as long as there have been children, to say that the British invented it is fabrication. Children worked mainly in farming throughout the world until factories started springing up in the UK and USA, these factories were hard and dangerous to work in, and, unfortunately children were used, but in Britain laws were passed that banned child labour in 1870, just imagine how terrible it must have been in the US, laws banning child labour were not introduced until 1938! That's 68 years after the UK.