From the Cradle to the Coalmine : The Story of Children in Welsh Mines
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1783160543
ISBN-13
9781783160549
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 15th, 2014
Print length
112 Pages
Weight
158 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyAge groups: children
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This is an accessible, richly illustrated book, telling the story of the children and young people who worked in the Welsh coalfields.
It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended with the establishment in 1840 of the Childrens Employment Commission, which exposed dangerous working conditions and sparked the adoption of a law that prevented children under the age of ten from working underground. What Ceri Thompson reveals in his richly illustrated From the Cradle to the Coalmine, however, is that the lack of inspectors made the law difficult to enforce, and many children continued to work illegally until Parliament made school attendance compulsory in the 1860s.
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