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- Breaker boy - Wikipedia
A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States [1] and United Kingdom [2] whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker
- Breaker Boys: Childhoods Lost in the Coal Mines
The breaker boys’ story is one of stark contrasts: the innocence of childhood stolen by the grit and grime of industrial labor Imagine being eight years old, bent over a conveyor belt, fingers raw and aching from hours of picking slate out of coal
- The Breaker Boys of Pennsylvania: Child Labor in the Coal Region
Discover the harsh realities faced by Pennsylvania’s breaker boys—child laborers who worked in the coal industry Learn about their struggles, the dangers they endured, and the fight for child labor reform
- Child Labor, Pennsylvania Coal Mines (gallery) – Energy History
In the late nineteenth century, young “breaker boys” worked in anthacite coal mines in Pennsylvania removing impurities such as slate from the coal before it was shipped out
- The Child Miners’ Photos of Lewis Hine that Appalled America, 1908-1911
Dry coal would kick up so much dust that breaker boys sometimes wore lamps on their heads to see, and asthma and black lung disease were common Coal was often washed to remove impurities, which created sulfuric acid
- Breaker Boys - Anthracite Living History
“Breaker Boys” were used in the anthracite coal mines to separate slate rock from the coal after it had been brought out of the shaft They often worked 14 to 16 hours a day They also suffered from chronic illness and respiratory problems associated with inhaling coal dust
- Breaker Boys – Anthracite Coal Region
A breaker boy was child laborer at the coal-mine whose job it was to separate impurities such as rock, slate, wood, sulfur, ash, clay, and soil from the coal using his bare hands in the coal breaker
- No Rest for the Weary: Children in the Coal Mines
Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners' consumption I once stood in a breaker for half an hour and tried to do the work a twelve-year-old boy was doing day after day, for ten hours at a stretch, for sixty cents a day
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