text:  They are so because they can at once earn sixpence or eightpence a-day by standing beside a wheel or watching a film of cotton which is discharged out of a machine; and this cheap and infantine labour is equally attractive to the parents who thus discover in their offspring a source of income instead of a burden--and the manufacturer who finds his work done by little docile labourers too weak to engage in a strike and yet strong enough to do the work