This is a 9th and 10th grade informational text about the struggles faced by newly emerging women and children laborers during the Industrial Revolution. While reading, students should cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Students should also determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).