British labor laws
child labor
coal mines
poor working conditions
Kasandra Ramirez Ferrer
I have always known that society in the past was not a place where people were mistreated equally and even affected the way they lived because others saw them as a minority. I always knew how child labor was years ago but I never really acknowledge how bad it was until I read stories and saw pictures of children living and working under hideous conditions. luckily in today’s society has forbidden children to work at a young age until they are 16, also health policies have changed the environment of the workplace progressively compare to how 10-year-old kids used to carry and push coal. However, it would never change the fact that many children died under these conditions.
24/09/2019
5:05 pm
Ivonne Orozco
Everytime I read articles where peoples rights were mistreated, it makes me upset. When I read this article it made me upset to see how such young children would have to go through things just because people didn’t care about putting the children in danger , breaks my heart.This article was very well written. I’m glad that usually when I see children now, it is nothing like how It used to be.
27/09/2019
5:05 pm
Olivia Tijerina
The authors message was that from the life of British children had a like completely different from the United State’s children. Why? one reason behind the difference was because for British it was their industrial revolution that had kept them booming in their economy. Especially if the working class needed the money. Consequences that can from their actions was that not only young adults die, it was their children that dies from their labors as well. The article, with the abundance of detail , measuring the conditions, expressed more into the article’s meaning.
04/10/2019
5:05 pm
Liam Morrison
While reading this,I learned that for years, people did not care for the health of people who worked in coal mines. I find it so unfair how children were put to work in such horrendous conditions while our generation is able to do whatever we like and live a normal childhood. The explanation of the history of coal mining was very good. We are very lucky that all the health and safety sorted this out before it got to us.
14/10/2019
5:05 pm
Michael Thompson
Interesting story about the working conditions for children, in reality wasn’t too long ago. It’s hard to imagine five year old’s working 12 hour shifts, and then dying even more so. But the fact that it did happen, and so many lives were lost and ruined, for little money, is devastating. It really should be looked at as a tragedy, and it’s sad it’s given less attention.
11/11/2019
5:05 pm
Lesley Martinez
This is such a sad reality. It is incredibly interesting how we know about this type of child labor from the 16th century and to know that certain circumstances still occur today. It sounds dangerous and shocking to know that children who were involved lost their lives and others had to live with health consequences. It seems that people find a way around laws, but I’m glad the United Kingdom passed the act that prohibited industries from allowing children to work as an attempt to prevent this. Great article!
14/02/2020
5:05 pm
sage sankey
reading this broke my heart a million times over again, it is sick that the children of young ages were put through that reading this made me a better person so I guess I can take that out of it
10/03/2020
5:05 pm
Caily Torres
This is a sad reality that still happens in parts of the world today. Children and women are taken advantage of with jobs that a typical (large) man cannot do and pay them the lowest wage possible. The results from this labor can have detrimental effects on their health and life span. It is cruel and unfair that they had to go through this, taking away their childhood. Even when the law prevented children under the age of 10 from working, people still found a loophole. However, the legislation illuminated the issue at hand and started the end of child labor in England.
03/10/2021
5:05 pm
ronnie dixon
what year is this picture?
11/10/2023
5:05 pm
Roberto Rodriguez
It is always really weird to look back at the past and see how human rights were not always universally accepted or even thought about. It is something that we really take for granted now and it is important to remember just how far we have come from. It is sad that so many young people had to work under such oppressive work conditions, especially the horrible jobs that they were assigned. This article made me feel a lot of empathy for all of the young people involved, even those that were able to leave or quit their jobs, still had irreversible life-threatening health conditions from their work.
24/09/2019
5:05 pm