Child Labor in the Coal Mine by Christopher El Chammas

    The children's houses were normally by coal mines so they could walk to work. Most of the houses had 5 people crammed into one room, there were no toliets and house hold trash were thrown out to the street. The coal mines were a dangerous place to work, roofs caved in, and all other types of injuries. Cutting and moving the coal was done by children, sometimes the older children would be employed as "Coal Bearers" and would have to carry coal on their backs up and down the mine.
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