Child employment is a most penalizing act. Many children were made to work in sweat shops and dark textile industry during the time of industrial revolution. Children were made to work for extended hours and there was no conveniences delivered for them.
They were deliberated to be the source of inexpensive labor and they were paid meager amount as daily wages. They were demoralized to the utmost that many children faced disastrous mishaps in the workplace which had huge machineries and industrial plants.
They were not directed to school education and they were not educated which would make them to realize the fact and come out of darkness of ignorance.
They originated in India in the 6th or 7th century and were introduced to Europe through the writings of Middle Eastern mathematicians, especially al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi, about the 12th century.