Child labour in Germany was first regulated in 1839 when Prussia passed a law prohibiting factory employment of children under 9, limiting teens under 16 to 10-hour work days, and banning night and Sunday work for children. While rural children always worked for their families, poor urban families relied on children's wages, though the new law was an initial step to control child labour. The law was notable as the first of its kind in Europe but critics argue it had weak enforcement and limited restrictions.

1. CHILD LABOUR
IN GERMANY

2. On the 9th of March, 1839, Prussia (a historical German state) passed a law
controlling the practice of child labour in its industrial regions. It prohibit the factory
employment children younger than nine, limited the labour of teens under sixteen to
ten hours a day, and outlawed night and Sunday changes for children.
Children always worked for the family in rural. Poor working families also needed
the money provided by the labour of their children.

3. They focus on this regulation because it was the first of its kind on the European
continent. Many of these works critique the law's flat enforcement and limited
restrictions as a part of a repressive Prussian tradition.