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CHILD LABOUR

Liv Nunamaker, Anna Lucchese, Rebecca Walsh, Grace Kozal, and Caroline Falkner
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Reasons for child labour

  • Children were cheap
  • They had nimble fingers
  • They could crawl under machines
  • They did not complain
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Risks

  • Getting caught in machines
  • Losing hair or limbs in the machines
  • Choking on the gas in the mines
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Children were called "scavengers" because they could crawl beneath machines to pick up the scraps.

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Small girls were called "piecers" because they mended broken threads

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Some children started work at 2 in the morning and stayed below ground for 18 hours.

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Children worked in complete darkness in the mines, and they ate dinner in the mines

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Caroline Falkner