while others worked as chimneysweeps or newsies. Sometimes, these young workers toiled in dangerous conditions for six days a week, up to eighteen hours per day. Many were injured, maimed, or even killed while working in factories. Wealthy industrialists usedchild laboras a way to pay low wa...
while others worked as chimneysweeps or newsies. Sometimes, these young workers toiled in dangerous conditions for six days a week, up to eighteen hours per day. Many were injured, maimed, or even killed while working in factories. Wealthy industrialists usedchild laboras a way to pay low wa...
000 apprentices (usually pauper children) working in cotton mills. The apprentices were particularly vulnerable to maltreatment, industrial accidents, and ill health from overwork and widespread contagious diseases such as smallpox, typhoid, and typhus. The enclosed conditions (to reduce the frequency...
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Butlin [9] confirms this association and says “Seeing, then, the comparative frequency with which cancer attacks the scrotum in chimney-sweeps, the inference is strong that there is something in the trade of a sweep which modifies the skin of the scrotum to such an extent as to render it...
1854- Cadbury Brothers receive their first Royal Warrant on 4 February as “manufacturers of cocoa and chocolate to Queen Victoria.” 1856- A more established chocolate company, Fry, proves to be tough competition for Cadbury Brothers. Business declines and the partnership dissolves. John Cadbury ta...
Child Chimney Sweeps “It’s a nasty trade!” “Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now” “That’s a’cause they damped down the straw afore they lit it in the chimbly to make ’em come down agin! That’s all smoke, and no blaze; whereas smoke ain’t o’ no use ...
Suddenly, rumours of female arsonists –pétroleuses– firebombing buildings became rife. Women caught carrying bottles, even chimneysweeps with blackened hands, were shot on the spot by the Versaillais. Killing was conducted in the open, with as many as 3,000 men and women dispatched in the...
operations shifted along the banks of Seneca Lake and down the tributaries of the Susquehanna to the point where that river sweeps southward into Pennsylvania past a borough of its own name, and then northward into New York, before it finally crosses Pennsylvania on its way to the Chesapeake. ...
Child Chimney Sweeps “It’s a nasty trade!” “Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now” “That’s a’cause they damped down the straw afore they lit it in the chimbly to make ’em come down agin! That’s all smoke, and no blaze; whereas smoke ain’t o’ no use ...