Boys in the pits
Subtitle: child labour in coal mining
By: Robert McIntosh.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Montréal, Qué
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Child labor -- Canada -- History; Coal miners -- Canada -- History
Description: "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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