Would you rather work or have a soul?

The work for textile workers must have been intense. From the lyrics of "the song of the shirt" you can tell that the workers work to the bone and can either work full time or not work at all because someone can easily replace them. Even the adults never had a definite job because there were kids who could work back then. They were even better then adults because they were able to crawl through small holes to fix the machines. The children also didn't have to be payed as much as the adults. On top of these grueling conditions there were no labor laws and they could have been forced to work 12+hrs a week. This work is ridiculous and unacceptable.