2024年7月12日 · All across the nation children would spend their days slaving away in mines and cotton mills, far away from the school rooms that the National Child Labor Committee wanted them to be in. Nearly all coal breaking facilities in the United States were labor-intensive.

2018年1月17日 · By 1910, some 2 million kids between the ages of 5 to 15 were employed in the United States — and we're not talking about paper routes. Children were exposed to massive amounts of heat in the glass-making industry, the whirling heavy machinery in textile mills, and the suffocating dust of coal mines.

2018年4月26日 · Young boys working in the coal mines were often referred to as Breaker Boys. This large group of children worked for the Ewen Breaker in Pittston, Pennsylvania, January 1911.

Work in coalmines was both hard and dangerous. Coal seams varied in thickness from eighteen inches in Durham to about seven feet in Yorkshire. Narrow seams meant the miners worked in very confined spaces. Where possible, pit ponies were used to carry the coal.

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...

2023年9月26日 · Breaker boys were young coal miners tasked with separating impurities from coal by hand—a dirty, dangerous, and monotonous job. These children sat along a coal conveyor belt, picking out slate and other impurities from the coal as it passed by them.

2024年2月9日 · This essay will delve into the history of child labor in the coal mines of the USA during the early 1900s, examining the causes, consequences, and eventual reforms that sought to address this pressing issue.

2017年11月3日 · 15-year-old Vance, a trapper boy, sits by a large door in West Virginia coal mine in September of 1908. Vance has trapped for several years, receiving 75 cents a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door.

In the early 1900s thousands of boys under the age of 14 were employed in coal mines in the United States. The risks of injury and death from cave-ins, fire, explosions, and gas poisoning were high. Other hazards included floods, dust-filled air, and machinery accidents.