In 1911, Hine traveled to the Wyoming Valley to document child labor in the coal mines. He sought out breaker boys, nippers and mule drivers to photograph and have a quiet conversation with them ...

The Taliban say they want to eliminate child labor ... up at the coal mines, working around the clock with no protection or promise for a different life ahead. Several of the older boys at ...

The air was so thick with coal dust that it was hard to see, and the sharp edges of the anthracite often cut the fingers on small hands. These “breaker boys ... law the Child Labor Act ...

By the early 1840s child labor had become the dirty little ... most grueling labor required of children – being breaker boys in the coal mines. By the 1880s Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal ...

Their horrific experiences as breaker boys have been chronicled by ... coal scavengers and miners in northern India: Child labor in the coal mines is not the only abuse of children from ...

‘Breaker boys ... labor militancy and a rejection of adult authority. Lewis Wickes Hine, working on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee, took these photos at the Pennsylvania Coal ...

Earlier this year the West Virginia Legislature passed a law eliminating work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-olds ...

Though the country had unions to protect laborers at that time – and Labor Day ... the buttons on his vest. The “breaker boys” at a Pennsylvania coal mine, photographed by Hine in 1911.

breaker boys, and more. Extensive author notes offer brief histories of child and animal labor, robber barons, unions, and the Industrial Revolution, as each relates to coal mining. In a sometimes ...

The boy, Kylych, is one of dozens, possibly hundreds of children working in the abandoned Soviet-era coal mines in the mountains of southern Kyrgyzstan. He knows what he does is extremely dangerous.