2011年4月11日 · Mary Davis was a 'pretty little girl' of six years old. The Government Inspector found her fast asleep against a large stone underground in the Plymouth Mines, Merthyr. After being wakened she said: "I went to sleep because my lamp had gone out for want of oil. I was frightened for someone had stolen my bread and cheese. I think it was the rats."

2023年4月12日 · Men, women, and children worked in Britain's mines, particularly in the coal mines, which boomed as they produced the fuel to feed the steam engines of the Industrial Revolution. All three groups had been involved in mining before the arrival of machines, but the industry's expansion meant that many more were now involved than previously.

Peter Kirby, the author of Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 (2003), has pointed out that many mine owners stopped employing young children, not because it was illegal, but because they were considered to be inefficient. "In the complicated ventilation systems of larger pits, young and inexperienced 'trappers' were often held responsible for ...

Children in the mines View full image Extract from the Reports and Evidence from Sub-Commissioners published by Children’s Employment Commission on the mines, 1842.

2013年6月12日 · Falling down open mine shafts, being trapped or injured by collapsing tunnels, or drowning while mining underwater are all serious threats. Of an estimated 215 million child laborers in the world, some 115 million work in especially hazardous conditions, says the International Labor Organization.

Most children started work underground when they were around eight years old, but some were as young as five. They would work the same hours as adults, sometimes longer, at jobs that paid far less. The trapper was often the youngest member of the family working underground.

2015年10月3日 · It established child labor standards, including a a minimum age (14 years old for factories, and 16 years old for mines) and an eight-hour workday. It also barred kids under the age of 16 from ...

'The particular labour in which children and young persons are employed in the collieries is of three kinds - colliers; horse-drivers or hauliers, as they are called, air-door boys; and, in some collieries, carters and skip-haulers.

That another frequent cause of fatal accidents in coal mines is the almost universal practice of intrusting the closing of the air-doors to very young Children. That there are many mines in which the most ordinary precautions to guard against accidents are neglected, an in which no money appears to be expended with a view to secure the safety ...

No Rest for the Weary: Children in the Coal Mines. For early twentieth-century Progressive reformers committed to social justice, widespread child labor—especially in coal mines, textile mills, and department stores—was particularly disturbing. And as with other Progressive crusades, the exposé was a favorite tool.