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1842 stop children under ten working in coalmines.
BBC States that in 1842, the parliament put a stop to women and children under the age of ten working in coalmines. children were made to push along trucks with coal inside, up mine tunnels. They were called 'putters'. A trapper child would sit there oblivious with hardly no light just a small candle, and no one to converse with. Children would sometimes begin work at 2 in the morning and stay underground in the dark deep coal mines for 18 hours, and were left in brutal conditions.
