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Boys In The Pits: Child Labour In Coal Mines

Author: Mcintosh, Robert
Hardback; Book
352 pages
Published: January 2001
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0773520937

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground -- driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's industrial revolution. Boys died in the mines in explosions and accidents. They also organized strikes for better working conditions but were instead expelled from the mines and lost their jobs.Boys in the Pits shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation. In a controversial interpretation of child labour, Robert McIntosh recasts wage-earning children as more than victims, showing that they were individuals who responded intelligently and resourcefully to tBeginning early in the 19th century, thousands of young Canadian boys laboured underground. This text shows the rapid maturity of the boys and their role in resisting exploitation, suggesting that rather than simply victims, they were individuals who acted intelligently and resourcefully.

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