Report of the Select Committee , Minutes of Evidence, 7 July 1832

The parliamentary testimony of Joseph Hebergam gives the Industrial Revolution its human cost: a child worker whose body had been damaged by the mill before he was old enough to vote.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Report of the Select Committee (The Sadler Report), Minutes of Evidence, 7 July 1832. Via Spartacus Educational. (Testimony of Joseph Hebergam.)