Coal mining

Tennessee you will find a dying coal mining community. A community that was once full of joyous people who lived simple. There were six days of hard labor and then a day of rest. The people who lived here believed in work. They were hard working people who were not afraid to get their hands dirty, but in most cases, their lungs. “Coal mining, beginning in the 1870s, for a time was the major employer in the Triangle area.” (Devil’s Triangle) Most men in this area were coal miners who risked their…

Hurriers, people that moved the coal from the face (the area where the coal was cut) to the horse ways (the area of the main passages where horses were used for hauling) ("The Coal Mines Industrial Revolution” 1). When moving the coal to different locations women would haul tubs of coal by rope/chain; the chain would pass underneath the women’s body, in between her legs and connect itself to the women’s waist. Teams of women were also employed to use a windlass to lift coal and workers upwards…

Turnbull argues that while Canals did not necessarily alter the market structure for coal, they did materially affect other aspects of the coal industry. Additionally, the development of canals and other infrastructure systems leading up to the industrial revolution serve as an important lesson on the importance of infrastructure development on the economy in Britain. Canals had a significant impact on the structure and efficiency of the British economy. First, canals affected the structure of…

Children were used as cheap labor in several industries. In the coal industry, “Two breaker boys aged 15 fell or were carried by the coal down into the car below. One was badly burned and the other was smothered to death” (Doc B). The working conditions in the mines were unsafe for all workers and especially dangerous for inexperienced and weaker children. For example, “... the air at times is dense with coal-dust, which penetrates so far into the passages of the lungs that for long…

against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime”-Kailash Satyarthi Child Laborer. The beginning of child labor had a very rough start especially in coal mines. In coal mines The coal was washed and sorted according to the beaker. Child Labor in The Progressive Era was also rough and it was nobody’s happy place, but kids was treated brutal anyway. Child Labor today is nearly not as horrific as during The…

foreign country how different some lives can be from our own. Malala is a young woman who put herself in peril to speak up for other young women and their right to an education. The breaker boys are young men and children who spent hours working in the coal mines back in the early 1900’s. Malala and the breaker boys are two prime examples of extremely different circumstances that very diverse children faced while still having common ground because of the corruption and oppression they endured. …

Snoring and body mass index (BMI) have been previously reported to be associated with metabolic syndrome(MetS). The aim of this study is to explore the individual effects and possible interaction of snoring and BMI on MetS. Methods: A total of 3794 coal miners aged 18-65 years old were recruited from Shanxi province of China. The individual effects were assessed by multivariable logistic regression model. The interaction on an additive scale between snoring and BMI was evaluated by calculating…

Imagine working an 18-hour shift six days a week. To most adults today, that would be unbearable, but for many child laborers in Victorian England, such labor was the reality. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens portrays many cruelties imposed on children in the Victorian Era that reflected reality. Dickens’s portrayal of children in the Victorian Era was not at all dramatized and depicted what many child laborers faced in the Victorian Era. The creation of factories in Britain had many…

massive flood caused by a local dam that had burst. The Pittston Coal Company had three different dams that played different roles in day-to-day operations, but one day, dam number three was no more. In the 1960s and very early 1970s, the Pittston Coal Company was the number one independent coal producing companies in the country. They were also fourth in concerns when it came to coal mines in the United States. The Pittston Coal Company owned almost 400,000 acres on the Appalachian…

Pretty much everything in the west is booming from mining, railroads, farming. Many are sold out and moved to the west hoping get rich and have a better. We can’t wait and pass this one of kind life time opportunities for both of us. We really need to decide quickly and move to there to join thousands other…