Child Labor Did you know children have much more challenging work to do than school? Child labor is fatal for children getting stuck in machines and machine bursts. Even when child labor was deadly, people tried to stop it. Child labor was cruel and very fatal in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, which led to immense changes. First, many kids work in dangerous working conditions. In Doc. :. 4. It says children worked in very hot temperatures from 100-130 degrees. Children have to work long hours, sometimes 12 or more hours (Doc. 1). The adage of the adage. Children also had to work in difficult conditions like the Doc says. 3. Children had cuts and burns mostly 90% of the time. Some kids