How many hours and how many days a week did people work in the early factories?

Well, sometimes adults and children worked more than half a day. The adults sometimes never stopped working. They took small breaks when allowed and only slept at the end of their day(they only slept only six hours then they would be woken up and told to get back to work).

The children were also very busy workers. They used children to fix hard to reach parts of machines because adults were too big. Some of these machines were very dangerous because you could lose a part of your foot or hand. Good thing work has evolved into modern more practical jobs and methods of work. Now the only work children do is home chores, school work, and for older kids, sometimes a part time job at the local store to earn extra money for little trinkets they eye on television.

Adults still work long hours but at least it is more comfortable and safer than working in a dusty, damp, room filled with loud machines and sharp pieces of metal.