Talk:Just Jobs: The Effect of Occupations On British Family Life

Coal Mining in Northern England
The Effect of Occupations on the British Family Life has some grammatical errors, but the substance is very well documented. I just returned from an "Ancestor Tour" of the area and found I have more compassion and understanding of the life of coal miners. Children as young as the age of 4 1/2 worked in the mines. and sometimes women and girls until a morality law was passed. The children were not even given an education until about 1865 because it was considered above their station in life. Many workers never saw the light of day. It was a very hard life.