Topic > Coal Mining by Children During the Industrial Revolution

Children's rights were minimal; they worked long hours, for a minimal amount, to provide for themselves and their family. Working hours would vary between 10 and 19 hours depending on gender, job and money earned. The children worked in horrible conditions; they worked near large, heavy and dangerous equipment, such as cars, large trucks and were forced to put their hands in tiny spaces to repair the machines. (Do you mean “trucks” that travel on the road? Did road lorries exist back then?) In a coal mine in central Britain it was recorded that 58 deaths out of a total of 349 deaths in one year were under 13 years old. Life for all those who worked underground was very hard, especially for the children who worked in the mines. Health during the industrial revolution was a big issue especially in the mining sector. Employers forced young children to work by requiring jobs that caused physical and physical pain, an example of these jobs was coal mining, being a trapper was horrible, children had to sit underground in small passages for hours and hours, the air was thin and there was nowhere to move. In 1900 over 2.1 million children were employed, 1/6 were employed in the mining industries. (Great use of statistics to support your paragraph about health issues. This paragraph works