An edition of Boys in the pits
(2000)
Boys in the pits
child labour in coal mining
by Robert Gordon McIntosh
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"A controversial and chilling examination of child labour in Canadian coal mines, Boys in the Pit shows that beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load the coal that fuelled the industrial revolution. Boys died in the mines in explosions and accidents but they also organized strikes for better working conditions.
Robert McIntosh recasts these wage-earning children as more than victims, illustrating that they responded intelligently and resourcefully to their circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Child labor, Coal miners, Coal mines and mining, canada, Enfants, Travail, Histoire, Mineurs de charbonPlaces
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Boys in the pits: child labour in coal mining
2000, McGill-Queen's University Press
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0773520937 9780773520936
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Boys in the pits: child labour in coal mining
2000, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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