Child labour in the mines Taken from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844: Friedrich Engels (1845). Engels wrote his book after the passing of the 1842 Mines Actwhich prohibited the employment underground of all females and of males under 10 years. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the numbers of child laborers in the U.S. peaked. children Although Britain was exceptional in the intensity of children's work, the evidence for other early industrializers shows that child labor was not uncom-mon. The first report included the commission’s findings on the state of child employment in mines, the second in other industries, and the third in factories. Miners would hew the coal from the face and the women ‘bearers’ carried the coal to the shaft, and then up to the surface. Februar 2022 Image by Larry C. Price. The trapper was often the youngest member of the family working underground. Child labor in the mines COMMISSIONERS (MINES), 1842 REFERENCE: | SUGGESTED AGE GROUPS: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, LIFELONG LEARNERS |TOPIC AREAS: VICTORIANS, TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION In 1840 Parliament set up the Children's Employment Commission. 1842 Like the Factory Act of 1833, this destroyed the family unity which had previously dominated the working scene in the mines and led to a greater segregation of wages due to gender The paper begins with an examination of interpretations of sex-specific protect-ive legislation commonly encountered in the Marxist and feminist literatures. CHILDREN Victorian Child Labor

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