2. “I don't know how old I am I began to work when I was about 9. I first worked for a man who used to hit me with a belt I used to sleep in the pits that had no more coal
in them; I used to eat whatever I could get; I ate for a long time the candles that I found in
the pits. ..." - E. Royston Pike adapted from Hard Times, Human Documents of the Industrial
Revolution
What was one thing that happened in response to the conditions described in
this passage?