Down the shafts: children as trappers in the dark, women harnessed to coal-carts, lungs ruined by thirty, and the truck system and cottage system that bind mining families to their employers — followed by the great miners' union and the strike of 1844 against 'the tender mercies of the coal lords.'
Children and women undergroundMiners' diseases and short working livesTruck system and tied cottagesThe Miners' Association and the 1844 strikeRoberts, the 'miners' attorney-general'