Usually, kids at this age are easily influenced by anything they see, either in their life, or on TV. So they will often try to imitate what happens on TV, whether consciously or unconsciously, that is not that important. Also, many studies have dealt with this question, and whether or not violence on TV actually causes violence of people in real life, but the results were always inconclusive.
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The workers were the lower class who did miserable dirty work. There were children working in the same terrifying conditions. They could lose limbs and life for very little payment. This was borderline slavery because they couldn't not take the jobs because if they didn't they would starve and there were no better jobs. It was an endless loop of poverty that the owners profited off. They didn't treat them well because there was no consequences for treating them badly.