Answer: Child labor was excruciatingly cruel and dangerous to the children of the Industrial Revolution.
Explanation: They worked in harmful conditions and wore baggy clothes. They worked long, unhealthy hours, whether they were sick or healthy. The got paid minimum wage, which was extremely low, and not enough to live off of.
Answer:
Participation was far from open to all residents, but was instead limited to adult, male citizens (i.e., not a foreign resident, regardless of how many generations of the family had lived in the city, nor a slave, nor a woman), who "were probably no more than 30 percent of the total adult population".