For 10 points, name these people who, during the Industrial Revolution, had their size exploited by being employed in such professions as chimney sweeping.
In the eighteenth century, hundreds of these people would gather on Monday and Tuesday mornings in Bethnal Green as part of a namesake Market. Journalist John Brown's investigation into the lives of some of these people led to Richard Carlile's The Lion publishing a memoir by Robert Blincoe that described his time as a scavenger. Canada and Rhodesia were two places that the "Home" version of these people were sent by the Fairbridge Society from Britain. The number of hours these people could work was limited by the Factory Act of 1833, and further reduced with those of women by the Ten Hour Act. For 10 points, name these people who, during the Industrial Revolution, had their size exploited by being employed in such professions as chimney sweeping.
In the eighteenth century, hundreds of these people would gather on Monday and Tuesday mornings in Bethnal Green as part of a namesake Market.
children [or orphans; accept equivalent answers; prompt on "factory workers" or equivalent answers]