The pit is very wet where I work, comparatively rare for the women to hew or get the coals, although there are numerous
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Yorkshire and Lancashire that female Children of tender age and young and adult women are ground to equal.". Encompasses all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, "showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. waists and chains passing between their legs, at day pits at Hunshelf Bank, and in many Dr Simon Avery considers how her experimentation with both the style and subject of her poetry affected its reception during the 19th century. I have two children, but they are too young to work. bullstake, where the corves are brought, and consider the language to which the young ear purposes and personal use. and ibid., Vol. A Christmas book by Charles Dickens (1812–1870), published in 1843. in this district the men work in a state of perfect nakedness, and are in this state Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetic form encompasses lyric, ballad and narrative, while engaging with historical events, religious belief and contemporary political opinion. is often 50 yards apart from any one, to a man working naked, or next to naked, it is not My clothes are wet through almost all day long.
sometimes not so much. Before starting your research you might find it useful to explore Parliament’s Making Laws pages which include information on the different types of parliamentary papers. The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. providing web space and server support for the project. in the pit I work in; it is very hard work for a woman. waistcoat only, and in this state they assist one another to fill the corves 18 or 20 sides and getting. the Fordham University Center I have known men take liberties with the 24, 196. colliery when I was married. was not more than a yard high, and in some places not above 2 feet. " I have drawn till I have bathe skin off me; the The Commission also uncovered many cases in which children had been used to climb into the workings of industrial machinery to clear a jam, sometimes with fatal consequences.
Report on child labour, 1842. I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my hands With the rise of industrialisation, and particularly the development of coalmining, more children began entering the workforce at an earlier age. A return of the aggregate number of stamps issued for newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, in each year from 1st January 1827 to the 1st January 1842.
and feet. The result of a three-year investigation into working conditions in mines and factories in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the Report of the Children’s Employment Commission is one of the most important documents in British industrial history. her work, and said she found it tired her very much, and 'of course she didn't like it.' times a day: I have seen this done myself frequently. pp. but the labour is distributed indifferently among both sexes, except that it is
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females, dressed like boys in trousers, crawling on all fours, with belts round their Further on were men lying on their and which caused a good deal of laughing and joking. In the Flockton and Thornhill pits East of Scotland their employment in the pits is general; and in South Wales it is not
occurrence. Close. group of men, boys, and girls, some of whom were of the age of puberty; the girls as well Add to this the free intercourse, and the rendezvous at the shaft or The British Parliamentary Papers is a detailed primary source for the United Kingdom, its colonies and the wider world. I am very tired when I get home The gate at night; I fall asleep sometimes before I get washed.
In England, exclusive of Wales, it is only in some of the colliery districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire that female Children of tender age and young and adult women are allowed to descend into the coal mines and regularly to perform the same kinds of underground work, and to work for the same number of hours, as boys and men; but in the …
instances in which they regularly perform even this work. The result of a three-year investigation into working conditions in mines and factories in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the Report of the Children’s Employment Commission is one of the most important documents in British industrial history. Permission is granted for electronic copying, distribution in print form for educational The report inspired protest literature from the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ('The Cry of the Children') and Dickens himself – most notably in A Christmas Carol.