Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History Fordham University
From Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, 1842, Vol XVI, pp. 24, 196.. In England, exclusive of Wales, it is only in some of the colliery districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire that Children of tender age and young and adult women are allowed to descend into the coal mines and regularly to perform the same kinds of underground work, and to work for the same number of hours, as boys and ...