Children in Mines | Museum Wales
For early twentieth-century Progressive reformers committed to social justice, widespread child labor—especially in coal mines, textile mills, and department stores—was particularly …
The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United …
He appears to be about 12 or 13 years old, Hine wrote. James worked at Knoxville Iron Co.'s Cross Mountain Mine, which is in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tennessee. James had been there four months.
31 Child Labor Photos That Expose The Ugly History Of …
View Gallery. Early 20th-century America remains notorious for widespread use of child labor. By 1910, some 2 million kids between the ages …
"Children of the Coal Shadow" – A haunting report …
In other words, a total of 24,023, or nearly one-sixth of all the employees of the anthracite coal mines, are children. Age Certificates and What They Amount To According to the mining laws of Pennsylvania, "no boy …
The child miners' photos of Hine that appalled …
A trapper boy, one mile inside Turkey Knob Mine in Macdonald, West ia. 1908. In the early 1900s child labor was still extremely common in the United States. All across the nation children would spend their days …
Children in the mines
Extract from the Reports and Evidence from Sub-Commissioners published by Children's Employment Commission on the mines, 1842. Transcript. No. 7— …
Child labor: Children reveal horror of working in mines
Child Miners Speak explores the dirty, dangerous, and degrading lives of more than 50 children, ages 8 to 17, working at an artisanal copper and cobalt mine in the country's Katanga province of the southern Democratic …
Coal Mining and the Victorians
On 4 August 1842, a law was passed that stopped women and children under ten years from working underground in mines in Britain. Illustration from Victorian Report on Children's …