In the given two excerpts, the main theme seems to revolve around the issue of working children and the inability to go to school. Both passages show how long working hours were given under extreme working conditions, also leading to the deaths of the workers who were children, young children.
Both of these excerpts refer to the Industrial Revolution period where children were 'employed' to do heavy work under extreme conditions. The documents suggest the extremity of the working conditions of the workers.
